Scandinavian-Britain

EAST ANGLIA 105repulsed. In the summer the whole army of Eadwardtook the fort at Tempsford, slaying King Guthorm IT.,"Toglea,"and"Mannan" Toli and Mani(Steenstrup,Norm. III., 51); and that autumn Colchester wasbesieged and stormed, with a general massacre of theinhabitants. In despair the last remnant of the Danisharmy, with the help of adventuring Vikings fromabroad, beset Maldon, but were beaten off, and theconquest of East Anglia was achieved. King Eadward,having received the submission of jarl Thorfrith atTowcester, refortified Colchester, and the people ofthe whole kingdom once ruled by Guthorm-^Ethelstanpassed under the rule of Wessex.For a while the government of the country waskept in the king's hands. King^Ethelstan beforehis death (940) created out of East Anglia the firstthe great ealdordoms, appointing to it /Ethelstanof Devonshire, afterwards known as the "half-king."He retired into a monastery in 956, and his provinceofwas at first divided among his four sons ; later, wefind ^Ethelwold ruling East Anglia, succeeded, in 96 2,by his brother ^Ethelwine in whose later ; years hesurvived until 992 an acting governor was needed.1The man was found in Ulfketil, evidently a Daneby birth but English in his sympathies (see pp. 152,In the ealdordom of East Anglia, Essex was notincluded. This county, with perhaps Middlesex,1 Ulfketil's name seems to be preserved in Ilketshall (llketelshalain Domesday}, etc., near the "moated minster" not far fromBungay. Note by the Rev. E. McClure.