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at the head of the army which came to England in
866 and had disappeared since 876, this must have
been a second king Halfdan.
These kings were drawn into the war between
Eadward and East Anglia ; they invaded Mercia, and
fell at Wednesfield near Wolverhampton with the jarls
Ottar and Scrufa (Skrúf-hárr, "curly haired"?), the
hölds Othulf, Benesing, Thurferth, Guthferth and
Agmund, Osferth the "collector" (or the Little; Steenstrup,
Norm. III., 35), Anlaf the Black and Guthferth.
In 919 York submitted to the Lady of the Mercians,
and for the moment it seemed that the independence
of the Danish kingdom was at an end. But in May
she died, and soon afterwards "Inguald" (according
to Symeon) took York, meaning Ragnvald, Reignold,
Ronald, Ranald, Reginald—according to the various
adaptations of his name—one of the most romantic
figures of Viking story. Ragnvald mac Bicloch of the
family of Ivar had ravaged Dunblane in 912, slain
Bard Ottarsson off the Isle of Man in 914, and in 915
joined the Vikings at Waterford with his brother or
cousin Sigtrygg Gale O’Ivar, who became king of
Dublin in 916. Then joining jarl Ottar, who had
been concerned in the unfortunate attack on South
Wales and Herefordshire in 915, and had been nearly
starved to death on Flatholme or Steepholme in the
Bristol Channel, Ragnvald set out for adventure in
North Britain. He probably landed in Cumberland,
crossed country by the Roman Wall, and fought the
battle of which we have soon to hear. In 919
Ragnvald became king of York, the first of the series
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