Back Emgann Merton Breton Slaget ved Meretun Danish Batalla de Marton Spanish Bataille de Meretun French Batalla de Marton Galician קרב מרטון HE Battaglia di Marton Italian Batalha de Marton Portuguese Bitka kod Martona Serbo-Croatian
| Battle of Meretun | |||||||
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| Part of the Viking invasions of England | |||||||
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| Wessex | Vikings | ||||||
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The Battle of Meretun (or Merton) between a West Saxon army led by King Æthelred and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great, and a Viking army took place on 22 March 871 at an unknown location in Wessex, probably in one of the modern counties of Dorset, Hampshire, or Wiltshire.