Identifier: youngpeopleshist01towl (find matches)
Title: Young people's history of England
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893
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Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shephard New York, C.T. Dillingham
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the French king, but was stilla very powerful and almost independent pringe. WhenSwends conquest of the English was complete, Ethelredfound an asylum, with his wife and son, in the dominionsof his Norman brother-in-law. But Swends period of rulein England was a very brief one. His death, the very yearafter his conquest (1014), is said to have happened in astrano^e wav. Swend seems to have had for Swends ° strange somc rcasou a special hatred to the memoryof St. Edmund, the story of whose murder hasbeen told. He demanded a heavy tribute from the abbeywhich had been built in the saints honor at Bury St.Edmunds. The tribute having been refused, Swend setout with some troops, with the avowed intention of burn-ing the sacred edifice. As he was riding along the road,of a sudden he thought he saw the spirit of St. Edmund, infull armor, coming to put him to death. * Help, soldiers,he cried to his men, St. Edmund is coming to kill me!He fell from his horse, in terror and died that very night.
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SWEXDS FIAE NOBLE SHIPS.— Page THE DANISH CONQUEST. 41 SwencFs death opened the way to Ethelreds return.He promptly came back from Normandy, and Return ofwas greeted with an ardent welcome from his ^theired.English subjects. He was their king; and, in spite ofhis faults and weaknesses, they were rejoiced to receivehim back again. Ethelred, indeed, showed more courageand character after his return than ever before. Hesummoned the Witenagemote, raised an army, and pre-pared to dislodo^e the Danes from their hold ^^ ^ ^ ^ The Danes upon the country. Canute, the son of Swend, under ... 11 , ,., Canute. was a young man of spirit, intellect, and warlikeenergy. Resolved to recover the dominion which hisfather had established over the English, he soon appearedoff the coast with a formidable fleet. Once more theconflict raged between the rival aspirants for the Englishcrown. In the midst of it, Ethelred died ; and now theWitenagemote was compelled to elect Canute the Daneking in his stead. B

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