Wednesday, 28 January 2015

The short reign of King Sweyne


He took the throne in 1013
With Sigrid as his Danish queen.
He died in 1014, alack
And Aethelred came swiftly back.
By now he had a trusted son
The so-called Edmund Ironside
And head to head and back to back
The two men fought the Danes with pride.
But though the battle rush was heady
King Aethelred just wasn’t ready.

The Anglos battled long and hard
To try to give the Danes the boot
But Sweyne, he also had a son,
And this boy’s name was (King) Canute.

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