Battle of Reading (871)

Battle of Reading
	Part of the Viking invasions of England
Date	c. 4 January 871
Location	Reading, Berkshire
Result	Viking victory
Belligerents
West Saxons	Danish Vikings
Commanders and leaders
Æthelred; Alfred	Bagsecg; Halfdan Ragnarsson

The Battle of Reading was a victory for a Danish Viking army over a West Saxon force on about 4 January 871 at Reading in Berkshire. The Vikings were led by Bagsecg and Halfdan Ragnarsson and the West Saxons by King Æthelred and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great. It was the second of a series of battles that took place following an invasion of Wessex by the Danish army in December 870.^[1]

^ Abels, Richard (1998). Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Harlow, UK: Longman. pp. 126–34. ISBN 0-582-04047-7.

[abels126-1] Abels, Richard (1998). Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Harlow, UK: Longman. pp. 126–34. ISBN 0-582-04047-7.

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