Ubba
Ninth-century Viking leader · Historical Figures · Lived 1000 to 878 · aged -122
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Something wrong?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-contemporary source names its leader as a brother of Ivar and Halfdan. Later sources call him Ubba.
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