| THEGREAT | King of Wessex who defeated the Danes in 878 (6,3,5) |
| ALFRED | King of Wessex who defeated the Danes in 878 (6,3,5) |
| EDINGTON | Battle of __, decisive victory by Alfred the Great over the Danes in 878 (8) |
| ETHELRED | 9th-century king of Wessex who led the resistance to the Danish invasion of England (8) |
| EGBERT | King of Wessex who was overlord of all England 829-830 A.D. (6) |
| ALFREDTHEGREAT | He repulsed the Danes, and was terribly glad thereafter (6,3,5) |
| NARVA | City in Estonia founded by the Danes in 1223 (5) |
| ASHDOWN | AEthelred and a young Alfred the Great defeated the Danes at the battle of ___ in AD 871 (7) |
| GODWIN | Earl of Wessex who was the father of Harold II of England (6) |
| BRIAN | King of Ireland killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf in 1014 (5,4) |
| BORU | King of Ireland killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf in 1014 (5,4) |
| MARTEL | Charles ___, grandfather of Charlemagne who was Frankish ruler of Austrasia who defeated the Moors at Poitiers in 732 |
| TAMERLANE | Founder of the Timurid Empire who defeated the Turks at Angora in 1402 (9) |
| STBRICESDAYMASSACRE | The killing of many Danes in England, ordered by AEthelred the Unready in 1002 (2,6,3,8) |
| MALDON | Battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991 (6) |
| MEADE | George Gordon, Union general in the American Civil War who defeated the Confederates at Gettysburg in 1863 (5) |
| DAVIDFARRAGUT | Union admiral who defeated the Confederacy at the Battle of Mobile Bay: 2 wds. |
| CHESTERNIMITZ | American admiral who defeated the Japanese at the Battle of Midway: 2 wds. |
| VIKINGS | The Danes, Norwegians and Swedes who raided most of North and West Europe by sea from the 8th to the 11th Centuries (7) |
| ELSINORE | In-1937,-Laurence-Olivier-and-Vivien-Leigh-starred-in-performances-Hamlet-on-location-in-Kronborg-Castle-in-this-port-known-to-the-Danes-as-Helsingor |
