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Ryan Lavelle

Ryan Lavelle is currently lecturing in medieval history at King Alfred's College, Winchester and the University of Southampton, England. He is completing a study of the reign of the Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred II ‘The Unready’, to be published later this year by Tempus Publishing.

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Æthelwold of Wessex

The end of the 9th century saw the resurgence of a Viking threat to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. But this was more than Viking raiding: it was a threat from inside the royal house of Wessex that — had it succeeded — could have led to the establishment of an Anglo-Scandinavian kingdom in the south of England...

November 1, 2000 12:00 AM