The royal chaplain Herefrith accused Uhtred of being a priest-killer hated by God, butВ Father Stepan went on to explain to Uhtred that the West Saxon garrison was stationed at Hornecastre to build a church there. Uhtred rode to Hornecastre and investigated the situation, finding that Brunulf - whose father Thorkell Brunulfsson had fought alongside him at the Battle of Edington - was not seeking a fight, while the priests accompanying him claimed that Hornecastre and the land beyond the River Bain belonged to the Anglo-Saxons due to the alleged (and undocumented) discovery of a holy relic (Saint Erpenwald's staff) on the other side of the river. Uhtred of Bebbanburg, whose attempt to recapture his hometown was foiled by the arrival of the invading Scots, soon received a call for help from his son-in-law, Sihtric, who had led 400 troops to Lincoln to prepare for war with the Saxons. Within a year, however, there were fears that the peace in England would be broken, as, just as King Constantine II of Scotland invaded Lord Wihtgar of Bebbanburg's lands in Northumbria, skirmishes occurred between the 300-strong West Saxon garrison at the former Roman fortress at Hornecastre (Horncastle) under Brunulf Thorkelsson and the Danish garrison of Lincoln. In 917, Sihtric ceded large parts of western Mercia to Lady Aethelflaed as a peace offering following his defeat of his brother and rival Ragnall ua Imair at the Battle of Rocester.

The ambush was thwarted by the Northumbrian nobleman Uhtred of Bebbanburg, who then rode to Huntingdon to inform King Edward the Elder of Wessex of Aethelhelm's treason.ДЇollowing King Edward the Elder of Wessex's peace treaty with King Sihtric Caech of Northymbre in 911, a sizable faction of courtiers led by the King's father-in-law Aethelhelm of Wiltshire sought to press the Anglo-Saxons' advantage and conquer the rest of Northumbria from the pagan Danes. The Battle of HornecastreВ occurred in 918 when a group of West Saxon troops loyal to Ealdorman Aethelhelm of Wiltshire - and disguised as Northumbrian Danes - attempted to ambush and massacre Brunulf Thorkelsson's West Saxon troops as they rode out of the city of Horncastle in a 'false flag' attack.

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