Aberffraw, Winchester and Maldwyn, mid-Wales, 893 AD
Aberffraw, Winchester and Maldwyn, mid-Wales, 893 ADThe glum expression on King Alfred’s face dismayed his thegns. They had been with him through the worst and the best times, so knew that the situation he was about to describe to them was grim.
“As you know, I ringed Wessex with fortified burhs and the Danes, frustrated with making little progress transferred to Frankia, where the political disarray made for easier pickings. The circumstances have changed, my friends, with the death of my godson, King Guthrum, East Anglia is now open to them again. My spies inform me that two hundred and fifty longships landed an army in the Lympne Estuary in Kent, whence they built a fortress at Appledore.” The royal countenance, never notable for ra
