Guthrum, the Viking leader ... of Wessex by training an army and building forts. I am a King who found great fame ‘Alfred the Great’ is my name I reigned from 871 AD And fought with the ...

They made peace and Guthrum, their king, was baptised with Alfred as his sponsor. In 886 AD, Alfred negotiated a treaty with the Danes. England was divided, with the north and the east (between ...

A rare coin minted by a Viking warlord after he became a Christian king ... known as Guthrum, who led a Danish invasion of Anglo-Saxon England and waged war against Alfred the Great.