Battle of Brunanburh
The
Battle of Brunanburh was a
West Saxon victory in
937 by the army of king
Athelstan and his brother
Edmund over the combined armies of
Olaf III Guthfrithson,
viking king of
Dublin and
Constantine, king of
Scotland. The location of this battle has not yet been identified.
Our chief source for the details of this battle come from the Anglo-Saxon poem of the same name.