Thence she turned on Leicester, which capitulated on her approach, the Danish host going over quietly to her side.

She was in communication with the Danes of York for the surrender of that city, too, when she died suddenly in her royal town of Tamworth, in the year 918.
Meanwhile Eadward had been pushing forward his own boundary in the east, building _burhs_ at Hertford and Witham, and endeavouring to subjugate the Danish league in Bedford, Huntingdon, and Northampton.

In 915, Thurketel, the jarl of Bedford, "sought him for lord," and Eadward afterwards built a _burh_ there also.

On his sister's death, he annexed all her territories, and then, in a fierce and long doubtful struggle, reconquered not only Huntingdon and Northampton but East Anglia as well.
The Christian English hailed him as a deliverer.

Next, he turned on Stamford, the Danish capital of the Fens, and on Nottingham, the stronghold of the Southumbrian host.