The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Guthrum ( - c. 890)

King of the East Angles. A nephew of Horik II of Denmark, he was one of the leaders of the Great Summer Army that invaded Anglo-Saxon England in 871. Guthrum ruled East Anglia under his baptismal name of Æthelstan until his death. Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guthrum References in Documents:
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 147 Athelstan the Dane 1, vid. 71. Edward, 4 ditto, 73, 74, 75, 76 5