In the year 894 the Danes among the Northumbrians and East Anglians gathered 100 ships and went south to besiege Exeter.
In the year 927 King Anlaf entered the Humber with a vast fleet of 615 sails.
In the year 993 Olave, with 93 ships, came to Staines.
In the year 994 Olave and Sveyn (Olaf of Norway and Svein of Denmark) came to London with 94 ships.
In the year 1006 a great fleet came to Sandwich and ravaged wherever it went. It returned in winter to the Isle of Wight; the distress and fear in the land were extreme. £36,000 and provisions was paid as tribute to the invaders.
In the year 1009, Thurkills came with his fleet to England, and after him another innumerable fleet of Danes, the chiefs of which were Hemming and Ailaf.
In the year 1069 the sons of Svein came from Denmark with 240 ships into the Humber.
In the year 1075 200 ships came from Denmark under Knut, son of Sweyne and Hecco, but did not dare to risk a battle with King William. After plundering in York they went to Flanders.
The Frankish chronicles give an account also of various fleets:—
Eginhard.