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Battle at Assingdon: Knute defeats King Edmund

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Ingram/Giles translation) records under 1016 that King Edmund, having gathered all the English nation for the fifth time, overtook the enemy in Essex on the down called Assingdon, where they fought; Alderman Edric first began the flight with "the Maisevethians" and so betrayed his lord, and Knute had the victory.

Limits: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a monastic chronicle, used here through the 19th-century English translation of Ingram/Giles (Old English not checked); this records what the Chronicle says, not independent confirmation. The translation's term "Maisevethians" is left as printed; the passage does not explain it. The entry's list of the slain is not covered here, and a translator's note (59) on one of those names reports manuscript disagreement.

  • Quoted from a published English translation, not from the original-language text.

Source: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (English translation by J. Ingram, with J. A. Giles)Read the source