The Battle of Ringmere was fought on 5 May 1010. Norse sagas recorded a battle at ''Hringmaraheiðr''; ''
Old English
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Hringmere-hǣð'', modern name Ringmere Heath.
In his
Víkingarvísur, the poet
Sigvat records the victory of
Saint Olaf (who according to Norse sources was fighting together with
King Ethelred[Judith Jesch (ed.) 2012, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Víkingarvísur 7’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 544. https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=verse&i=3848]) over
Ulfcytel Snillingr:
[; Edited with notes by Erling Monsen]
: ''Yet again Óláfr caused a sword-assembly
ATTLE
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to be held for the seventh time in Ulfcytel’s land, as I recount the tale. The offspring of Ælla
Englishmenstood over all Ringmere Heath; there was slaying of the army there, where the guardian of Haraldr’s inheritance
Óláfrcaused exertion.''
records that the Danes defeated the Saxons. Over a three-month period the Danes wasted East Anglia, burning Thetford and
Cambridge.
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