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Not only peace, but, according to William of Malmesbury,
friendly relations with Scandinavia : "Harald,
king of Norway, sent him a ship with a golden beak
and a purple sail, furnished within with a compacted
fence of gilded shields. The names of the persons
sent with it were Helgrim and Offrid ; who, being
received with princely magnificence in the city of
York, were amply compensated by rich presents for
the labour of their journey." The story of Harald’s
trick, by which his youngest son Hákon was forced
upon a King Æthelstan as foster-child, is referred by
some to Guthorm-Æthelstan, who died 890 or 891,
"or to his son and successor, who may have borne
the same double name" (Green, Conquest of England,
p. 126), and died 918. Hákon, Æthelstan’s foster-son,
came to the throne in Norway in 934, "and in
those days was Hákon fifteen winters old"
(Heimskringla, Hákonarsaga, i.). He was born, therefore,
after the death of Guthorm II., and he lived until
960-961. On the accession of Æthelstan of England
Hákon must have been five or six, according to
Snorri’s dating ; so that the chronological difficulty
is less than that which attends the invention of the
name of Æthelstan for Guthorm II. of East Anglia.
On the accession of Eadmund (940) Northumbria
revolted, and invited Olaf of Ireland to be king. At
this time Olaf Guthfrith’s son, king of Dublin, seems
to have left his realm to his brother Blákári, and
answered the call to York. Under him the Danes
tried to regain Danish Mercia ; Tamworth was stormed,
but King Eadmund besieged Olaf and Wulfstan,
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