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Ælla was king of Northumbria, in the north of England. In 866 a large Viking force known as the Great Heathen Army landed in England, and the next year it took the city of York. Ælla was killed when he tried to win it back.

The Viking sagas tell a much more dramatic version. They say Ælla captured the Viking hero Ragnar Lothbrok and put him in a pit of snakes, and that Ragnar’s sons came back for revenge. Historians think this is mostly legend.