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jarl, King Knut gave, him a jarldom for the sake of Ulf jarl, 

 'his brother-in-law. The sons of Godwin and Gyda were: 

 Harald the English king, and Tosti jarl, called wooden spear ; 

 Manrakari jarl (Morcar) ; Valthjof (Waltheof) jarl, and Svein 

 jarl ; from them have sprung many chiefs in England, Den- 

 mark, Sweden, and Gardariki (Russia). They are king's 

 families in the Danish realm. The daughter of King Harald, 

 son of Godwin, was called Gyda; she was married to King 

 Valdamar (Vladimir) in Holmgard (Novgorod); their son 

 was King Harald ; he had two daughters, of whom will be 

 told later " (Knytlinga Saga, c. 11). 



" Knut besieged Lundunaborg (London), and Edmund with 

 his brothers defended it; then Knut was married to Queen 

 Emma, their mother, and at last hostages were given and a 

 truce was established to talk about full reconciliation ; and 

 peace was made on the terms that the realm should be divided 

 between them in halves, each to have one half while he lived, 

 but if either of them died childless, the survivor should have 

 the right to take the whole realm ; this was confirmed with 

 oaths. Heidrek Strjona was a powerful man who got property 

 from King Knut in order to betray King Edmund and murder 

 him, and that was the manner of his death, though Heidrek 

 was the foster-father of Edmund, who believed in him as in 

 himself. Then King Knut drove away from England all the 

 sons of King ^Ethelred ; many battles were fought in conse- 

 quence, but they did not get many men to help against Knut 

 after Edmund had been slain. The sons of King yEthelred 

 then stayed west in Valland in Norrnandi for a long time with 

 their uncles (Rodbert) Kobert and Vilhjalm (William), as is told 

 in the Saga of Olaf helgi (the saint). Eirik jarl Hakonsson 

 died in England, when he was ready for a journey to Rome. 

 . . . Knut and Queen Emma had three children; Harald 

 was the oldest, and then Horda-Knut; their daughter was 

 Gunnhild, who later was married to the Emperor Heiurek, 

 (Henry), the Mild, who was the third of his kinsmen of that 

 name. Svein was the third son of King Knut; his mother 

 was Alfifa the Wealthy, daughter of Alfrun jarl " (Knytlinga 

 Saga, c. 16). 



" When Knut came back to England (from Rome) he fell 

 sick, first from what is called jaundice ; he was sick a long 

 while during the summer, and died in the autumn, on the 

 13th November, in Morst (Shaftesbury), a large town, and 

 there he is buried. He was then thirty-seven years old ; he 

 had been king over Denmark twenty-seven years, over England 

 twenty-four, and over Norway seven years. It is acknowledged 



