The battle ended Process_end in an Anglo-Saxon defeat .

Three Anglo-Saxon warriors , Wulfstan , Ælfhere and Maccus blocked Hindering the bridge , successfully engaging any Vikings who pressed Motion forward .

He ( Byrhtnoth ) seems to embody many of the virtues that are uplifted in the Anglo-Saxon world , and is compared often by many scholars to the character Beowulf .

The forces Causation engaged by the Anglo-Saxon were raiding Attack , or ( in Old Norse ) `` '' , to gather Come_together loot , rather than to occupy land for settlement .

The poem `` Battle Hostile_encounter of Brunanburh '' in the `` Anglo-Saxon Chronicle '' recounts Statement that there were `` never yet as many people killed Killing before this with sword 's edge ... since the east Angles and Saxons came up Motion over the broad sea '' .

Alfred Smuth has called Name_conferral the battle Military_operation `` the greatest single battle Hostile_encounter in Anglo-Saxon history before Hastings '' .

The Siege of Exeter occurred Coming_to_be in 1068 when William I marched Self_motion a combined army of Normans and Englishmen loyal to the king west to force the submission of Exeter , a stronghold of Anglo-Saxon resistance against Norman rule .

The `` Anglo-Saxon Chronicle '' recorded Recording that the Mercians and the people of Kent fought Hostile_encounter at Otford , without giving Giving the outcome , although it is considered Deciding significant that Kent was re-established as an independent kingdom after the battle Hostile_encounter .

The existence Presence of this battle Hostile_encounter is known due Causation to several different chronicles , including the Annales Fuldenses and the `` Anglo-Saxon Chronicle '' .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William , the Duke of Normandy , and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson , beginning Process_start the Norman conquest of England .