480 SOME EXPEDITIONS AND DEEDS OF GREAT VIKINGS. 



" King- Svein was at the fall of Olaf Tryggvason with King 

 Olaf the Swedish, his stepson, and with jarl Eirik, his son-in-law. 

 They fought at Svold, and after the fall of Olaf Tryggvason, 

 King Svein of Denmark, King Olaf of Sweden, and jarl Eirik 

 of Norway divided Norway between themselves " (Knytlinga 

 Saga, c. 5). 



In the chapter on inheritance we have seen that King 

 Svein made the vow to drive ^Ethelred from England. 



" King Svein was a great warrior and a most powerful king ; 

 he made warfare far arid wide, both in the east and in Saxland. 

 At last he went with his host west to England, ravaged in 

 many places there, and fought many battles ; Adalrad Yat- 

 geirsson was then king there. Svein and he fought many 

 battles, and were alternately victorious. Svein won the greatest 

 part of England ; he lived there for many winters, and ravaged 

 and burnt widely in the land ; they called him the foe of the 

 English. In that war King vEthelred fled from Svein out of 

 the land " (Knytlinga Saga, c. 6). 



" King Svein stayed at home in Denmark ; his son Knut 

 was brought up there ; Thorkel the high fostered him. Svein 

 made warfare in the land of King ^Ethelred, and drove him out 

 of the land south across the sea ; he put Thingamannalid l in 

 two places. The one in London (Lundunaborg) was ruled by 

 Eilif Thorgilsson, the brother of Ulf (jarl) ; he had sixty ships 

 in the Temps (Thames). The other Thingamannalid was north 

 in Slesvik, over which Heming jarl, the brother of Thorkel 

 the high, was ruler also with sixty ships. 



" The Thingamen established a law that no report should 

 be spread, and no one should stay away a whole night ; they 

 Attended the Bura-church, in which was a large bell, that was 

 to be rung every night when only a third of the night was 

 left ; then every one was to go to church, but without weapons ; 

 such laws as these they had in Slesvik. 



" He who had the command in the town (Lundunaborg) was 

 Alrek Strjona, a brother of Emma, the daughter of Richard 

 (Rikgard of Normandy), the father of Vilhjalm (William) ; 

 King .ZEthelred was married to her. Ulfkel Smiling 2 ruled 

 over the northern part of England ; he was married to Ulfhild, 

 the daughter of King yEthelred. King Svein died in England, 

 and the Danes took his body to Denmark, and buried him in 



1 The Thinijamen seems to have been a 

 kind of standing army, like the Vairiu- 



gians in Constantinople. 



2 Siiilling = master of speech. 



