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Swein Forkbeard's Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991-1017 »
Authors: Ian Howard
ISBN-13: 9780851159287, ISBN-10: 0851159281
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Ian Howard
Book Synopsis
New insight gained into this exciting period of English history through focusing on the activities of Swein Forkbeard and, after his death in 1014, the Danish warlord Thorkell the Tall.
Table of Contents
| List of figures | ||
| General Editor's Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Propaganda and legend: Accounts of the invasions and conquest of England | 1 |
| 2 | Hindsight: Features explaining the invasions and conquest | 12 |
| 3 | Swein Forkbeard's first invasion | 31 |
| 4 | Swein Forkbeard's second invasion | 54 |
| 5 | The invasion in 1006 | 72 |
| 6 | Swein Forkbeard's third invasion | 99 |
| 7 | Thorkell the Tall and the English succession | 124 |
| Conclusion | 144 | |
| App. 1 | Heimskringla | 147 |
| App. 2 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A reconstruction of the annal for the year 1008 | 163 |
| Bibliography | 169 | |
| Index | 179 |
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