8 minutes 12/13 seconds into the video, the narrator claims King Ecgbehrt of Wessex defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Carhampton in 836 AD . Every website I’ve read states that the Vikings defeated King Ecgbehrt 's army. Which version is correct?
This site (that seems fairly well researched based on the sources) says there were two battles (fought by Kind Alfred’s father and grandfather) and the Vikings won both:
the two recorded Viking raids, one in 836 when King Egbert, Alfreds grandfather, fought against 35 (in one version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles it is 25) ship-loads of Vikings, with the Vikings winning amidst great slaughter. The other engagement was in 843, when King Æthelwulf (King Alfred’s father) fought and lost against another 35 ship-loads of Vikings at Carhampton
Both the translations of the Anglo Saxon Chronicle I have found online list the battles in question as happening at Charmouth not Charhampton. E.g.:
A.D. 833. This year fought King Egbert with thirty-five pirates at Charmouth, where a great slaughter
was made, and the Danes remained masters of the field.
Though there is some further debate there:
https://www.stantonstgabriel.com/vikings.html
Either way everything I’m seeing says the Vikings won.
Thanks griffin 1977.
Vikings 2 - English Nil
There’s also this:
This appears to show the Vikings winning.