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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle : Year 912
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Details from the Chronicle
This year died Ethered, alderman of Mercia; and King Edward took to London, and to Oxford, and to all the lands that thereunto belonged. This year also came Ethelfleda, lady of the Mercians, on the holy eve called the invention of the holy cross, to Shergate, and built the fortress there, and the same year that at Bridgenorth.
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Key people and places
EDWARD (the Elder, King of West Saxons, 899-924)
Bridgnorth Castle
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Translation by Rev. James Ingram (London, 1823), with additional readings from the translation of Dr. J.A. Giles (London, 1847).
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