The Danelaw (/ˈdeɪnˌlɔː/, also known as the Danelagh; Danish: Danelagen; Old English: Dena lagu) was the part of England in which the laws of the Danes...

The Viking invasions of the ninth century and the establishment of the Danelaw once again divided Northumbria. Although primarily recorded in the southern...

Lincoln Nottingham Stamford The Five Boroughs or The Five Boroughs of the Danelaw were the five main towns of Danish Mercia (what is now the East Midlands)...

which to develop. Danish ruled kingdoms in the British Isles, known as the Danelaw, began to model their own coins on rulers in addition to various Christian...

his Mercian allies were able to concentrate on conquering the southern Danelaw in East Anglia and the Five Boroughs of Viking east Mercia: Derby, Leicester...

successors, it steadily expanded at the expense of the kingdoms of the Danelaw. This brought about the political unification of England, first accomplished...

Isles and Western Europe. They settled in parts of England (known as the Danelaw) under King Sweyn Forkbeard in 1013, and in France where Danes and Norwegians...

monk offers to show the Vikings the way to the Viking settlements of the Danelaw, where they would be safe. Along the way, they are repeatedly attacked...

Great forced a treaty with the Danes, East Anglia was left as part of the Danelaw. It was taken back from Danish control by Edward the Elder and incorporated...

other Germanic varieties. Even in the 9th and 10th centuries, amidst the Danelaw and other Viking invasions, there is historical evidence that Old Norse...

The term Danish Empire may refer to: Dankirke (400–850) Danelaw (865–954) The North Sea Empire of Cnut the Great (1016–1035) Danish control of Danish...

Attestations, Table XLV (1 of 1); Sawyer, "Charters", p. 31 Hadley, Northern Danelaw, p. 231 Sawyer 544; Keynes, Atlas of Attestations, Table XLV (1 of 1) Sawyer...

specifically mentions the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, and the code is of particular historical significance for the Danelaw and Anglo-Scandinavian Britain. The...

Anglia and started the invasion that would lead to the creation of the Danelaw. Led by Ubba and Ivar (who may be the same historical figure as Ímar) the...

(Series K type 32a) dating to 720–750 and minted in Kent. It is edged in a dotted triangle pattern. Its origin is the Danelaw region and dates to 870–930...

Alfred the Great signed the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum to establish the Danelaw, a division of England between English and Danish rule, with the Danes...

as Quadripartitus. The areas to the north and east became known as the Danelaw because it was under Viking political influence, whilst those areas to...

Anglo-Saxons, and then by the Vikings who made it one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Leicester became an important town during the Middle Ages, and then an...

then by the Vikings who made Djúra-bý one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Initially a market town, Derby grew rapidly in the industrial era and...

became the boundary between the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia and the Danelaw. The county was relatively settled during the rest of the Middle Ages and...

of the Vikings and their Great Heathen Army, Danelaw absorbed much of the former Mercian territory. Danelaw at its height included London, all of East Anglia...

and left English surnames of Norse origin in the area now called the Danelaw. According to Origins of English Surnames and A Dictionary of English and...

supported themselves." This land was part of what became known as the Danelaw. According to Asser, the second band was led by Guthrum, Oscetel, and Anwend...

After the Viking Age, an Anglo-Scandinavian identity developed in the Danelaw. The term Angli Saxones seems to have first been used in mainland writing...

Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, the area that Vikings from Denmark controlled. In about 917 the region was subdivided between Danelaw (Vikings) to the north...

title of nobility, used in early medieval Scandinavia and the English Danelaw. Holds were described as "noblemen of exalted rank" in Viking Northumbria...

kingdoms led to them coming under Danish control (an area known as the Danelaw). In the 10th century, however, all the English kingdoms were unified under...

large areas outside Scandinavia were settled by the Danes, including the Danelaw in England and countryside and newly established towns in Ireland, the...

886 succeeded, while the last, in 994, was rebuffed. The Vikings applied Danelaw over much of eastern and northern England, its boundary running roughly...

fact that there were numerous Christian priests of Danish origin in the Danelaw, while Sweyn had few personal connections to Germany. Sweyn's preference...