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Snippet: 1681 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 241) Compare 1587 edition:
1 But here to the intent it
may be the better perceyued, what this Sueno was I will ſome|what touch from whence he diſcended.
Snippet: 1682 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 241) Compare 1587 edition:
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This agreeth t [...]t with our Englyſh wry|ters.That Sueno whiche (as ye haue
heard) con|quered the realme of England, being alſo king of Denmarke and Norway
had .iij. ſonnes, Ha|rold, Sueno, & Canute, the firſte he ordeyned to
be king of England, the .ij. king of Norway, and the third king of
Denmarke.
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Harold that reygned king of Englãd, was not the ſonne of Sueno but of
Canute, and was not ſlaine, but died of na|tural diſeaſe. See more hereof
in En|gland.
Canute king of Denmarke. This is cõtra|ry to our En|gliſhe writers.
Harolde enioyed not the ſame dominion of England paſſing .iij. yeares
after his fathers de|ceaſſe, but was ſlaine by Etheldred or Egelred, whom his father Sueno had chaſed into Nor|mandie.
Howbeit yet the fame Etheldred kept not long the kingdome in peace, for Canute
king of Denmarke to reuenge his brothers death, landed in England with a mighty
hoſte, and ſleayng Etheldred, recouered the kingdome
[figure appears here on page 241] to the vſe of the Danes, but yet one Edmond ſonne to the
foreſayde Etheldred,Edmund Iron|ſide. ſurnamed
I|ronſide, maynteyned the warre agaynſt Canute for a ſeaſon,This partely agreeth with our wryters. till at length by bothe theyr
con|ſentes, they agreed to fight a combat ſingularly man to man, ſo to trie the
mater betwixt them, who ſhould reigne as king ouer the Engliſhmẽ.
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