The Danelaw was a kingdom in the Northeast of England ruled for about 70 years by Danish Vikings. It was recognized by the English in a treaty of 884, and ended in 954, when Eric Bloodaxe was driven out of England. The border separating England from the Danelaw was roughly a line from London to Chester.
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The boundaries of the Danelaw were established by treaty in 884.
York was an important capital city of the Danelaw, but there might have been others at different times.
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Danelaw comprised of 15 shires. The shires include were Yorkshire, Five Boroughs of Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Stamford and Lincoln, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Buckinghamshire.
The "danelaw" referred to the northern and eastern two-thirds of England (roughly everything north and east of a diagonal line running between the Thames and the Mersey) which was ruled by the Danes after THE TREATY OF WEDMORE in 878AD agreed between King Alfred of the English and Gothrum, a Danish Earl.
The boundaries of the Danelaw were established by treaty in 884.
York was an important capital city of the Danelaw, but there might have been others at different times.
"Danelaw"
The Danelaw was land in England held under the control of Danish kings arriving with invading armies from the continent.
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Mainly the north of England
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ENGLAND For students of English history as well as those specifically interested in the Danelaw there are lots of interesting pieces on this website including some new pictures not seen before.Recommended
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The area of England where Danes lived under their own laws is called Danelaw or sometimes, Danelagh. Geographically, Danelaw is in the southern and northern parts of the current England map.