Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is Episode 346.

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Barely a year after putting down Thorkels Rebellion,

Knewt was sailing for Denmark. Again, to fight in a war. Again. Now obviously this wasn't great,

but our English sources get pretty quiet about what happens next. The Scandinavian sources say more,

but they also each say a different thing and sometimes they directly contradict each other.

But what happens next, Knewt's War for the Throne of Denmark, is a pivotal moment for the history

of England, Britain and honestly large portions of Europe. So despite the fact that we have conflicting

sources, I'm going to do my best to tell you this story and what follows is my best shot at a

coherent tale that can be put together from the various sources that are available. Now the

biggest source is a Scandinavian document called the Newt's Drapa. But I'm also going to be drawing

heavily from story story lessons, Heim Kringla, and supplementing that with material from other

sagas and from other records in the region. And as for our old stand-by, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,

well, the scribes of the Chronicle gave us a total of two sentences for this entire conflict.

So most of this is coming from the sagas and other related documents from the North.

Okay, here we go. And according to story sterlison, all of this begins with a bit of political intrigue.

Yarl Ulf, who had been governing Denmark alongside Knewt's son, Harthaknewt,

had been trying to warn Knewt that Denmark was in danger every time the king left for England.

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