[35] Freeman will not accept any part of this story of Olaf’s intervention in English affairs, because it is not found in any of the English Chronicles. It, however, reads like the record of an actual attack upon the Danish forces in London, although the time and circumstances may have become confused in the mind of the Northern Chronicler. Sigvat’s poem tends to confirm its general accuracy. [36] pp. 102–107. [37] pp. 95–99. [38] The Norwegian chronicles say that Eirik died in England. [39] This is the Norse account. The English Chronicle, which is likely to be correct in this matter, says that Canute was reconciled to Earl Thorkill in 1023, and that he committed Denmark and his son Hardacanute to his keeping, he himself taking Thorkill’s son back with him to England. [40] Emma’s two sons by Ethelred were Alfred (see pp. 211–212) and Edward the Confessor; she also had a daughter. Ethelred had several sons by a former wife, of whom Edmund Ironside is the most famous. [41] The same story is told of the landing of William the Conqueror at Pevensey; it is probably repeated from this incident in the life of Olaf. [42] Magna Charta was then taken south by the barons to meet the King at Staines; it was signed by King John on an island in the Thames called Runnymede, on the 15th of June 1215. [43] Baldwin, Earl of Flanders in the ninth century, had married a daughter of Alfred the Great, hence the connexion with England. The same earl was, by another wife, the ancestor of Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror. [44] The English chronicles say of Thorkill the Tall. [45] p. 201–3. [46] See the whole of Edward’s speech in Snorre, “Saga of Magnus the Good,” Laing’s translation, 1889, vol. iii. p. 344–5. [47] Westminster Abbey was consecrated on the 28th of December 1065. [48] Nidaros, the old capital of Norway, was afterwards Throndhjem, or Drontheim. [49] Freeman considers that some of the details of the battle of Stamford Bridge, as given in the Norse story, belong rightly to the battle of Hastings. Index Adils, E., 70, 71–74 Ælla, King of Northumbria, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21 and _n._, 26 Alfgeir, Earl, 65, 70–72 Alfred the Great, 14, 22–35, 37, 52, 56, 136; his studies, 23, 24, 34; his laws and navy, 32–33; his “Manual,” 24; his liberality, 33. His “Life” (_see_ Asser) Alfred “the Ætheling,” 185, 211–212, 217, 222 Alfvine, a champion, 93–94 Amazons, 17 Anglesea Sound, B. of, 237–238 (_see_ Mona) Anses, the, 21 Antrim, 119 Ardee, B. of, 120 Armagh, 45–46, 118 Armour, 130, 152, 240 Ashdune, B. of, 27–28, 29 Aslang, w. of Raynar Lodbrog, 21 and _n._ Asser, 23, 28, 31, 34; his “Life of Alfred,” 23, 24 Astrid, m. of Olaf Trygveson, 91, 92 Athelney, Isle of, 30, 32 Athelstan the Great, King of England, 46, 54, 56–77, 78–81, 84, 179 Aud (O. U. Audr), 47 (and _see_ Unn) Augvaldness, B. of, 87 Baltic, 92, 103