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Knút sent away the greater part of his army, and
retained only these húskarls, the Witan promised that
they should "have firm peace" ; that any Englishman
who killed one of them should be punished, and if he
was not found his Hundred or township should pay
the blood-money.
Knút died Nov. 12, 1035, master, as his father
was, but far more effectively master of England,
Denmark and Norway. He cannot have intended
to form a permanent empire ; in those days personal
allegiance of the local rulers was everything;
imperial organisation was hardly within practical
politics. Bernicia, much diminished by the loss of
the Lothians, was still in the hands of the old
Anglian family which had survived all the Viking
invasions, and was now represented by Ealdred,
Uhtred’s son, and at his death by his brother Eadwulf.
Deira was ruled in 1033 by Siward the Stout (Sigurd
Digri) an Anglo-Dane who had married Æthelflæd,
daughter of jarl Ealdred. Mercia was still under
Leofric, and Wessex under Godwine ; Hereford and
Eastern Mercia were under Ranig and Thurig or
Thórir. The kingdom of England had been promised
by Knút to Emma’s son Hördaknút, but he was now
ruling Denmark ; Svein, the eldest son of Knút’s
first marriage, was in Norway; and his brother
Harald Harefoot, being on the spot, and half a
Northumbrian, was elected by the vote of the
Northumbrians and Londoners (or the standing
army in London, the Iiðsmenn, not necessarily the
"nautic multitude" as Freeman took it). Godwine
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