ed far and wide;
world lying all before them where to choose. Wretched Ethelred
as the
one invention he could fall upon
offered them Danegelt (16
000 pounds
of silver this year
but it rose in other years as high as 48
000 pounds); the
desperate Ethelred
a clear method of quenching fire by pouring oil on it
converse white!
Svein and Olaf accepted; withdrew to Southampton
--Olaf at least did
--till
the money was got ready. Strange to think of
fierce Svein of the Double-
beard
and conquest of England by him; this had at last become the one
salutary result which remained for that distracted
down-trodden
now
utterly chaotic and anarchic country. A conquering Svein
followed by an
ably and earnestly administrative
as well as conquering
Knut (whom
Dahlmann compares to Charlemagne)
were thus by the mysterious
destinies appointed the effective saviors of England.
Tryggveson
on this occasion
was a good while at Southampton; and
roamed extensively about
easily victorious over everything
if resistance
were attempted
but finding little or none; and acting now in a peaceable
or even friendly capacity. In the Southampton yilai:
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