Capitolo 33
Ragnar only was not the one of these Northmens to that they made attempts
you disembark in England and to plunder the Anglo-Saxons, also in his/her his/her own day.
Even if there were no anybody kept historical and very regular files in those
first times, still a great number of legends and ballads, and ancient
chronicles have come down to us, while narrating the various operations
it happened what, and it appears from these that the maritime kings generally
you/he/she was starting, to this point, to molest the coasts English, as
all the other beaches to which they could earn access. Some of these
invasions would seem to have been of a very formidable character.
For first these excursions were only made in the season in summer, and,
after having picked up their looting, the raiders would return in the
autumn to their his/her own beaches and winter in the bays and among the
islands there. They grew however for a long time, more daring. A great ribbon
of them land, in the autumn of 851, on the island of Thanet where
the Saxonses I was you/they were disembarked first four centuries, and it started a lot
freshly to establish their quarters in winter on earth of English. Them
succeeded in to maintain their stay during the winter, and in the
spring still is prepared for more daring enterprises.
They formed a great confederation, and picked up a fleet of three
one hundred and fifty ships, helmets and boats and it audaciously advanced
on the Thames. They plundered London, and then south marched to
Canterbury that they also plundered. They went for this motive in one of the
You reign Anglo-Saxon called Mercia, the inhabitants of the country not
being able to oppose some real obstacle to their March that plunders.
Finally, a great Anglo-Saxon strength was organized and it brought out to
satisfy them. Against the battle fights in a forest of oaks and Danish
you/he/she was defeated. However, victory allowed him the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
only a provisional relief. New hordes were continually arriving and
disembarking, growing more daring if theirs met him with success, and but