A 1,000-Year-Old Battle Sparks a Fresh War Among Academics, Amateurs

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The Battle of Brunanburh happened in 937. Academics and amateur historians are fighting about its location more than 1,000 years later.

BARNSDALE, England—Over 1,000 years ago, vast armies from what are now Scotland and Ireland swept into a field here to be defeated by soldiers from the emerging nation of England.

No they didn’t, says Michael Livingston, an American historian, who argues that the battle known as Brunanburh happened some 100 miles west, near Liverpool. Mr. Livingston, though, is flat out wrong, says Damo Bullen, a British music festival organizer turned bookseller, who like many others says the battle happened somewhere else entirely.

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