The Rise Of Wessex In Southern England
Rory Naismith
The half-century between the battle of Ellendun /Wroughton in 825 and chaos brought about by Viking ‘Great Army’ 860s 870s saw last flowering separate Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (Wormald 1982b). Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria East Anglia each still possessed their own dynasty; smaller remained important as internal components these larger polities, but no longer had capacity for independent political action (for case Essex at this time, see Yorke 1985, 24, 36).
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