[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.
[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.