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(1908) [MARC] [MARC] Author: William Gershom Collingwood With: Frederick York Powell
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as the Chronicle records to his honour, "he made a
covenant with King Æthelred, even as he also fulfilled,
that he never again would come as an enemy to the
English nation."

Svein went to the Isle of Man, but the bulk of the
army, who had remained at Southampton and were
supposed to be in the English service, ravaged Cornwall
and Devon, burnt Tavistock Abbey, and then
harried Dorset and the Isle of Wight. Next year
they sailed up the Medway, besieged Rochester and
plundered in Kent. In this they were probably within
the meaning of the act, as they understood it : the
west, and Kent, were not the country they had undertaken
to guard ; and it is to be borne in mind that
we have the story from one side only. There was
evasion of payment on several occasions in the account
of Saxon dealings with the Vikings; and the local
jealousies of England suggest that one district was
sometimes not entirely displeased to see another
victimised.

It has been suggested (Sir J. Ramsay, Foundations
of England,
p. 340) that the Scandinavian settlements
in the Lake district date from this time : Thietmar of
Merseburg speaks of territory assigned to invading
bands for permanent occupation, and Jóstein and
Guthmund henceforward disappear from history "as
if they had found comfortable quarters somewhere."
But the Lake district was not in Æthelred’s realm ;
the quarters assigned seem to have been in and
near Southampton. Æthelred ravaged Cumberland
a few years later, as he would hardly have done if

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