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| County of the Borough | } | winds had driven them to the shores | ||||
| and Town of | } Continued | of Aberwicke. They landed at a | ||||
| Berwick upon Tweed | } | place now called Spittal Point, | ||||
| destroyed Coldingham abbey, | ||||||
| Holy Island, Teignmouth, Jarrow | ||||||
| & Wearmouth. | ||||||
| The Danes inhabited Berwick for 17 years. Alfred hunted the Danes | ||||||
| into Northumberland. Contemporary with Alfred was the great Scottish | ||||||
| King Gregory, surnamed the Great. After subduing the south of | ||||||
| Scotland, and extirpating the |
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| – now strongly fortified & garrisoned with Danes. Baffled in his | ||||||
| assault he drew off his men; but the inhabitants being principally | ||||||
| of old Saxon blood, they arose in the night, let in Gregory’s soldiers | ||||||
| who killed every Dane in the Town. Following up his success | ||||||
| Gregory defeated an immense Army of Danes in Northumberland | ||||||
| and returning to Berwick passed the winter in peace. So fell | ||||||
| the Danes & their power in Berwick which now, for the first time became a | ||||||
| Scottish town under Gregory. | ||||||
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