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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.

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