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What would have happened if Alfred the Great had fallen in battle in 871 and Wessex had been conquered by the Danes? Since he is called the real first English king, his death might have never crystallized the idea of England. Would the subsequent Danish invasions have transformed England into a danish colony? Would the Anglo-Saxon sentiment rise again to re-establish England as itself or would it become a different country with Danish roots?