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(1908) [MARC] [MARC] Author: William Gershom Collingwood With: Frederick York Powell
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named Thrym ("stupid"), who had been lately confirmed
by Ælfheah himself, put him out of his misery
with the stroke of an axe. Thorkel did what he could
to make amends for the "regrettable incident," in
which the Danes too completely justified the charges
laid against them. He gave up the body of the archbishop
for honourable burial, and shortly took service
under the English king, whom he supported with
fidelity until the flight to Normandy, which put an
end to Æthelred’s actual reign.

During 1013 King Svein arrived once more with a
great fleet. With him, or about this time, arrived
Olaf Haraldsson, afterwards king and saint, but
certainly during all this period engaged in viking
exploits. Some years later, when Olaf was king of
Norway, the skald Ottar the Black made a love-song
to the queen, for which he was condemned to
death ; he won his life by composing a poem on the
king’s deeds in England, mentioning especially the
breaking of London Bridge, the battle of Ringmere,
and the capture of Canterbury. According to Snorri
Sturluson he fought for the English against the
Danes, but the circumstances are not easy to make
out.

Uhtred, the Anglo-Danish governor of Northumbria,
set the example of adherence to Svein, and all the
north of England followed. Marching through Mercia,
the Danes met no resistance until they were repulsed
from London by the townsfolk under Thorkel, but
even London opened its gates to them when the
Witan had met in the west, and by its submission

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