Brunanburh

Brunanburh, the scene in 937 of a bloody battle, in which Athelstan (q.v.) defeated an allied army of Welsh, Scots, and Danes. It is difficult to say whether Brunanburh was in Lothian, Northumberland, Yorkshire, at Brumby in Lincolnshire, or at Bromborough in Cheshire; and some have contended it was near Axminster in Devonshire. Of the Anglo-Saxon poem on the victory, preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, there is a spirited version by Lord Tennyson.