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2. East Anglia.
The realm of Guthorm-Æthelstan included at first
not only Norfolk and Suffolk, with Essex, which had
recently been ruled by Kent as part of the eastern
kingdom of the Saxons, but also the present counties
of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham,
Hertford, and Middlesex. In 880 his army settled
in the country conquered ten years earlier, and divided
the lands. Their occupation of the western part of
this large region did not last long, and the traces they
left upon it, in place-names, racial character and
customs are slight. In fact, they never settled it, in
the sense of forming new estates to which the owners
gave their names and national characteristics. They
merely took possession, and that for a short tenure
only. About 885, as already told, the boundary was
refixed, and the whole of Middlesex and Buckinghamshire,
with half Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, were
transferred to King Ælfred.
Guthorm-Æthelstan died in 890 or 891, and was
succeeded by King Jórik (Eohric; that is to say, not
Eirík, but a name formed like Jóstein). In 905 the
peace of England was troubled by a cousin of King
Eadward named Æthelwald, who had put in a claim
to the throne, and now sought the help of the East
Anglian Danes. They invaded Mercia, and Eadward
made a counter raid into Cambridgeshire. The Danes
returned, and caught the Kentish division of his army
in their dilatory retreat. In the battle which followed
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