Battle in 937 when Athelstan defeated the Scots

Usage examples of brunanburh.

Since the Battle of Brunanburh nine years before, where thousands of Viking, Scots and Welsh soldiers had died attempting to shake the tyrannical yoke, Northumbria had never truly recovered.

Bolthor was a giant of a man, still well muscled from fighting, even at forty and more years, but he had lost one eye at the Battle of Brunanburh some twenty years ago.

I fought beside Tykir at the Battle of Brunanburh where I lost my eye.