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![]() ![]() There is reason to suspect that a proportion of the Viking forces specifically originated in Frisia, where some Viking commanders are known to have held fiefdoms on behalf of the Franks. The Great Army appears to have been a coalition of warbands drawn from Scandinavia, Ireland, the Irish Sea region and Continental Europe. Ubba ( Old Norse: Ubbi died 878) was a 9th-century Viking and one of the commanders of the Great Heathen Army that invaded Anglo-Saxon England in the 860s. ![]() ![]() Ubba's name as it appears on folio 48 v of British Library Harley 2278 ( Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund): " Vbba" ![]()
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