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The Battle of Ringmere was fought in 1010. Norse sagas recorded a battle at ''Hringmaraheior''; ''Old English Hringmere-hūō'', modern name Ringmere Heath. The sack of Thetford occurred in 1004. Sigvat records the victory of King Ethelred, allied with Saint Olaf,〔; Edited with notes by Erling Monsen〕 over the Danes under Sweyn Forkbeard during the latters campaigns in England. The Battle site was located in lands under the control of Ulfcytel Snillingr, thegn of East Anglia, at a site once thought to be near Wretham,〔 but now thought to be at Rymer in Suffolk. The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' reports that Ulfcytel Snillingr and the "councillors in East Anglia" attempted to buy a truce with Swein, but that the Danes broke the truce and marched to Thetford where a part of the East Anglian fyrd engaged them. The Danes managed to escape. John of Worcester records that the Danes defeated the Saxons. Over a three-month period the Danes wasted East Anglia, burning Thetford and Cambridge.〔 ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battle of Ringmere」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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