Danelaw was the area of England that the Danes occupied during and after their invasion of the 800’s. The Danelaw was not a fixed area, and it shrank or grew depending on the failure or success of the Danish kings. It occupied most of northern and eastern England. Historians believe that the Danes drove out or enslaved the Anglo-Saxon population in their northern settlements. In their settlements to the south, the Danes became landowners, and the Anglo-Saxons remained as farmworkers.
