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 KINGS OF NOKWAY. 21 Edmund, that each of them should have a half of saga vn. England. In the same month Henry Strion mur- dered King Edmund. King Canute then drove all Ethelred's sons out of England. So says Sigvat : — " Now all the sons of Ethelred Were either fallen, or had fled : Some slain by Canute, — some, they say, To save their lives had run away." King Ethelred's sons came to Rouen in Valland Chapter from England, to their mother's brother, the same ofoiaf' summer that King- Olaf Haraldsson came from the an f, Ethel - . ,° . . red s sons. west from his viking cruise, and they were all during the winter in Normandy together. They made an agreement with each other that King Olaf should have Northumberland, if they could succeed in taking England from the Danes. Therefore, about harvest, Olaf sent his foster-father Rane to England to collect men-at-arms ; and Ethelred's sons sent to- kens to their friends and relations with him. King Olaf, besides, gave him much money with him to at- tract people to them. Rane was all winter in Eng- land, and got promises from many powerful men of fidelity, as the people of the country would rather have native kings over them; but the Danish power had become so great in England, that all the people were brought under their dominion. In spring King Olaf and King Ethelred's sons set Chapter out together to the west, and came to a place in Battle of * England called Jungofurda*, where they landed with Kin s olaf - their army, and moved forward against the castle. Many men were there who had promised them their aid. They took the castle ; and killed many people. Now when King Canute's men heard of this they assembled an army, and were soon in such force that Ethelred's sons could not stand against it ; and they saw no other way left but to return to Rouen. Then c 3
 * Jungofurda must be some place on the south coast of England.