The Battle of Tettenhall (Sometimes called the battle of Wodnesfeld)
In 909AD the joint armies of Mercia and Wessex carried out a five week long raid against Lindsey and recovered the relics of St Oswald from the Danes.
In 910AD the northern Danes retaliated and carried out an attack on Mercia. Believing that the Saxon King Edward was in Kent raising a fleet, they decided the time was ripe to get their revenge and raising a fleet of their own, sailed with a large army up the River Seven right into the heart of Mercia.
Knowing that they had little to fear from a much smaller Mercian army, they rampaged through the countryside burning, killing and pillaging as they went. After sating their appetite for terror, and having gathered a great deal of plunder they decided it was time to leave. However, as they made there way back to the ships they were confronted by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex led by King Edward, Aethelred and Aethelflaed; so much for Edward being in Kent?
Forced to flee in a hostile land the Danes headed north hoping to escape but the allies closed in on them and they were given no choice but to make a stand. The battle took place on the 5th of August at a place near Tettenhall (Now part of Wolverhampton) and there was much slaughter with thousands of the Danes including their leaders, Eowils Ragnarson, Healfdan ll and Earl Ohter being killed.
As an aside; Irish sources describe a battle in 918 and in one passage says that Earl Ohter, on seeing the scale of the slaughter fled with his men into a nearby wood. The Queen on seeing this, ordered her men to surround the wood, cut down the trees, and then move in to kill the Danes hiding within.
The battle of Corbridge took place in 918; however, there was definitely no Earl Ohter present, and as far as is known no queen either. Could the reference be to the 910 battle of Tettenhall?
