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Help | Contact | About | Site Map  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle : Year 882        Details from the Chronicle This year went the army up along the Maese far into Frankland, and there sat a year; and the same year went King Alfred out to sea with a fleet; and fought with four ship-rovers of the Danes, and took two of their ships; wherein all the men were slain; and the other two surrendered; but the men were severely cut and wounded ere they surrendered. Key people and places ALFRED (The Great, King of Wessex 871-899) Translation by Rev. James Ingram (London, 1823), with additional readings from the translation of Dr. J.A. Giles (London, 1847).