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King Knute drives King Olave from Norway

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Ingram/Giles translation) records under 1028 that King Knute went from England to Norway with fifty ships manned with English thanes, drove King Olave from the land, and secured it entirely to himself.

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. The number of ships is as the Chronicle reports it.

  • 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