Great Danish Army

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The Great Danish Army, more commonly known as the Great Heathen Army, was a large coalition of Viking warriors that invaded and campaigned across Anglo-Saxon England in the late 9th century.

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Label Occurrences
Danish forces 1
Great Danish Army canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Viking army
historical military force
military coalition
activeInCentury 9th century
activeInPeriod late 9th century
alsoKnownAs Great Danish Host
Great Heathen Army
micel here
mycel hæþen here
captured East Anglia
York
composedOf Danish Vikings
linked to: Viking

Norse Vikings
linked to: Viking

Viking warriors
conflict Anglo-Saxon–Viking conflicts
Viking invasions of England
documentedIn Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
foughtAgainst Alfred the Great
Edmund the Martyr
Kingdom of East Anglia
Kingdom of Mercia
linked to: Mercia

Kingdom of Northumbria
Kingdom of Wessex
Osberht of Northumbria
Ælla of Northumbria
invaded Anglo-Saxon England
language Old Norse
leader Anund
Bagsecg
Guthrum
Halfdan Ragnarsson
Ivar the Boneless
Jarl Osbern
Oscetel
Ubba
notableCampaign campaign in East Anglia
campaign in Mercia
campaign in Northumbria
campaign in Wessex
operatedIn Anglo-Saxon England
origin Denmark
Norway
Scandinavia
Sweden
primaryObjective conquest of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
plunder
settlement
regionOfOperations England
religion Norse paganism
resultedIn establishment of the Danelaw
typeOfWarfare occupation
raiding

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Great Heathen Army alsoKnownAs Great Danish Army
Battle of Assandun belligerent Danish forces
linked to: Great Danish Army