Whitwell

From there he made an attempt to conquer the Danish district of the Five Boroughs.

He seems to have got a good part of Mercia into his hands but in the end Edmund freed the Danes from Norse oppression and took once more into his hands all Mercia south of a line from Dore, bracket near Sheffield, end of bracket, to Whitwell, bracket Derbyshire, end of bracket, and thence to the Humber.

Edmund and Anlaf came to terms but Anlaf was driven out by the Northumbrians in 943 and in the next year that province fell into the hands of Edmund.

In 947 Eric Bloodaxe, son of Harold Fairhair, was accepted as king by the Northumbrians.