Wessex

By the ninth century, the country had been split between the kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia and Wessex. Wessex successfully challenged the Viking invaders. England as a whole was united under the Wessex king Edred, after the Wessex army's defeat of Eric Bloodaxe in 954, From then until the Norman Conquest, England was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom.
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