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AD 1013

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AD 1013Placed in a yearEuropePolitics and institutions

King Sweyne lands at Sandwich and the north submits to him

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Ingram/Giles translation) records under 1013 that before the month of August King Sweyne came with his fleet to Sandwich, went about East-Anglia into the Humber-mouth and up the Trent to Gainsborough, and that Earl Utred and all the Northumbrians, the people of Lindsey, afterwards the people of the Five Boroughs, and then all the army north of Watling-street submitted to him, hostages being given him from each shire.

Limits: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a monastic chronicle, used here through the 19th-century English translation of Ingram/Giles (Old English not checked); this records what the Chronicle says, not independent confirmation. Place names are given in the translation's spelling.

  • Quoted from a published English translation, not from the original-language text.

Source: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (English translation by J. Ingram, with J. A. Giles)Read the source