Ubba
Ninth-century Viking leader
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A Viking commander who helped break three Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 860s and 870s, then died in Devon leading a separate warband — later legend fused him with martyrdom tales and Ragnar Lodbrok's sons, though the contemporary trail is thinner and colder.
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Ubba led part of the Great Heathen Army that crossed into East Anglia in 865, a coalition pulled from Scandinavia, Ireland, and the continent; some sources call him dux of the Frisians, hinting at a Frankish fiefdom. The army tore through Northumbria, bought off Mercia, then destroyed the East Angles in 869 and killed King Edmund — a death that spawned a cult. By 873 the coalition had split: Halfdan took Northumbria, Guthrum pushed south into Wessex. In the winter of 877–878, as Guthrum struck deep, a second Viking force hit Devon. That army was annihilated at Arx Cynuit in 878, and a near-con…
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