England in the Age of Vikings

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Tom Shippey, England in the Age of Vikings; Alfred was great, but his grandson was also instrumental in cobbling together a country from its fractious parts. Wall Street Journal, Aug 1, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303406104576443701600589400.html
(book review on Sarah Foot,  Æthelstan. Yale Univ Press, 2011)

Note:
(a) Wessex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex
(The Kingdom of Wessex or Kingdom of the West Saxons; see map)
(b) Midlands (England)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_(England)
("the traditional name for the area comprising central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia. It borders Southern England, Northern England" among others)
(c) Alfred the Great
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great
(848/849-899; King of Wessex 871-899)
(d) Mercia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercia
(The name is a Latinisation of the Old English Mierce or Myrce, meaning "border people"; the Mark [is] a name cognate with Mercia)
(e) East Anglia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Anglia
(a region of eastern England, named after the Kingdom of the East Angles, whch was formed about  the year 520; The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany)
(f) For Five Boroughs of Danish Mercia, see
Five Boroughs of the Danelaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Boroughs_of_the_Danelaw
(g) Northumbria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumbria
(kingdom of the Angles; 653-954)
(h) Cumberland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland
(i) Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle
(a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons; The original manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great)
(j) Holy Lance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Lance
(k) Malmesbury
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmesbury
(l) Monmouth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth
(m) alderman (n;  Old English ealdorman, from ealdor parent (from eald old) + man):
"a person governing a kingdom, district, or shire as viceroy for an Anglo-Saxon king"
www.m-w.com
(n) conciliate (vt; Latin conciliare to assemble, unite, win over):
"to gain (as goodwill) by pleasing acts"


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