Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Pen Selwood (Danish Invasion).

Fought 1016, between the English, under Edmund Ironside, and the Danes, under Knut, shortly after Edmund's election as King by the Witanegemot. This was the first of the series of engagements between the two rivals, which ended with the Peace of Olney.