Pertempuran Edington

Koordinat: 51°15′50″N 02°08′34″W / 51.26389°N 2.14278°W / 51.26389; -2.14278

Bagian dari Invasi Inggris oleh Viking

Monumen Pertempuran Ethandun didirikan pada 2000 dekat Puri Bratton.^[1]

Tanggal	Mei 878
Lokasi	Diyakini Edington, Wiltshire
Hasil	Kemenangan mutlak Sachsen Barat

Pihak terlibat

Sachsen Barat

Viking Danelaw

Tokoh dan pemimpin

Alfred Agung

Guthrum Tua

Kekuatan

unknown

Korban

unknown

Di Pertempuran Edington, pasukan kerajaan Anglo-Saxon Wessex di bawah kepemimpinan Alfred Agung mengalahkan Tentara Besar Biadab pimpinan Guthrum pada sebuah tanggal antara 6 dan 12 Mei 878 M, menghasilkan Traktat Wedmore pada tahun yang sama. Sumber-sumber primer menyebut pertempuran tersebut terjadi di "Ethandun" atau "Ethandune", dan konsensus cendekiawan menghubungkan lokasi tersebut dengan wilayah saat ini dari Edington di Wiltshire. Pertempuran tersebut juga disebut sebagai Pertempuran Ethandun, sebuah nama yang masih dipakai.

Catatan

^ UK Inventory of War Memorials. The Memorial stone plaque reads:
TO COMMEMORATE THE BATTLE OF ETHANDUN FOUGHT IN THIS VICINITY MAY 878 AD WHEN KING ALFRED THE GREAT DEFEATED THE VIKING ARMY, GIVING BIRTH TO THE ENGLISH NATIONHOOD. UNVEILED BY THE 7TH MARQUESS OF BATH 5TH NOVEMBER 2000.

An additional inscription reads:

THIS STONE, PRESENTED BY F. SWANTON AND SONS, NORTH FARM, WEST OVERTON, IS A SARSEN STONE SIMILAR TO THOSE AT KINGSTON DEVERILL, THE AREA WHERE KING ALFRED RALLIED SAXON LEVIES FROM HAMPSHIRE, WILTSHIRE AND SOMERSET TO MARCH AGAINST GUTHRUM'S VIKING ARMY BASED AT CHIPPENHAM.

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