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Also known as Danelagh

The Danelaw (, ; ; ) was the part of England between the late ninth century and the Norman Conquest under Anglo-Saxon rule in which Danish laws applied. The Danelaw originated in the conquest and occupation of large parts of eastern and northern England by Danish Vikings in the late ninth century. The term applies to the areas in which English kings allowed the Danes to keep their own laws following the early tenth-century Anglo-Saxon conquest of Danish-ruled eastern and northern England in return for the Danish settlers' loyalty to the English crown. "Danelaw" is first recorded in the early 1

Key facts

Country.conventional_long_name
Danelaw
Country.common_name
Danelaw
Country.event_start
Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum
Country.year_start
Between 878 and 890
Country.year_end
1066
Country.event_end
Norman Conquest
Country.image_map
England 878.svg
Country.image_map_caption
England, 886
Country.religion
Christianity
Country.common_languages
Old NorseOld English
Country.today
England

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