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Have we any significant mention of this person outside the accounts of the battle of Ashdown in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Asser's Life of Alfred (the latter a contentions source)?

Modern English translations of this persons name tend to use Bagsac, is that what we should call him? PatGallacher (talk) 02:55, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This material which StephenPaternoster is attempting to add looks to me like a piece of semi-literate unencyclopedic speculation. What do people think? PatGallacher (talk) 21:13, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

King Bagsecg

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"Bagsecg (also known as Bægsecg or Bagsec) (died 8 January 871) was a Viking leader commonly referred to as a king. In 870 or 871 he led The Great Summer Army to England."

How could he lead the GSA in 871 if he died in January 871? IF (and it is an if) he led the Great Summer-Fleet of 870 he arrived sometime after Easter of 870 and banded together with a Danish army under Halfdan Ragnarsson at Reading. He was killed early in the new year of 871 in the Battle of Ashdown by King Ethelraed's forces. It may have been 8 January but I know of no contemporary sources that give this date.

Dantes Warden

Dantes Warden (talk) 16:33, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]