Halfdan's Coin: How a Viking King Lost England to Other Vikings
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Halfdan's Coin: How a Viking King Lost England to Other Vikings
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Halfdan's Coin: How a Viking King Lost England to Other Vikings
In this episode, we follow the movements and decisions that let a Viking commander claim English cities and mint his name on coin, and we trace how those same choices led him away from the land he seized. How did logistics, politics, and rival ambitions shape the rise and unraveling of his control?
Person: Halfdan Ragnarsson
Date: 871 (coin struck in London in the winter of 871)
Location: London; Wessex; Northumbria; Strangford Lough (Ireland)
Event: Great Heathen Army campaigns in England and subsequent conflicts in Ireland
- Halfdan’s force landed in East Anglia in 865 and prioritized seizing horses to build a mounted campaign supply system.
- York fell in 866 amid Northumbrian civil war; Halfdan installed a puppet ruler and used English towns to winter his army.
- In 867 Halfdan moved to Nottingham and accepted a truce with Mercia as a strategic decision to manage enemies sequentially.
- By winter 871 Halfdan was minting silver coins stamped with his name in London as a claim to governance.
- In 871 the campaign against Wessex produced nine pitched battles across the year, with Wessex repeatedly refusing to be subdued.
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