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When Eadred came to the English throne in 946
archbishop Wulfstan and two Northumbrian jarls,
"Imorcer and Andcoll," joined in his election ; but it
does not seem to have satisfied the Northumbrian
people, for a year or two later he marched to Taddenesscylfe
(Tanshelf, Pontefract?), where Wulfstan
and the Northumbrian Witan swore fidelity to him.
In the same year, however, they elected one Eirík as
king. The identity of this Eirík, and the sequence
of events, cannot be easily discussed in a paragraph ;
but elsewhere (Saga-book of the Viking Club, ii., pp.
313-327, and Trans. Cumb. and West. Antiq. Soc., N.S.,
ii., pp. 231-241) reasons are given for accepting the
account of Snorri Sturluson and the Norse historians,
who make him the famous Eirík Blódöx, son of
Harald Fairhair of Norway, as against that of Adam
of Bremen, who makes this king of Northumbria to
be Hiring, son of Harald Blátönn, king of Denmark.
Mr. J. R. Green (Conquest of England, pp. 262 seq.,
289 seq.) tried to combine both stories, making
Harald Blátönn attempt to place his son on the
throne of York in 947, (though there is no sign that
his fleet, even if it was off Normandy in 945, ever
touched English shores,) and finding a place for
Eirík Blódöx, son of Harald Fairhair, in the years
after Brunanburh (though there is no mention of
any such king in Northumbria at that time in any
British chronicle). The events as given in the English
annals are :—947, the Northumbrians belied the
oath which they had just sworn to King Eadred, implying
that they set up the king mentioned in 948
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