Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is Episode 350, a tough

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And thank you very much to Jamie, Hannah, and William for signing up already. And also,

a special shout out to Baby Wolf Hera, who's only about nine weeks old and I think is probably

our youngest member. Welcome to the World Wolf Hera. Okay, so we've got another mystery on our hands.

We have a missing year, and I don't think the year was missing because nothing happened.

Now as we know from previous episodes, things in 1031 were getting a bit ropey, especially in

Norway. Canute son and his ex-wife, having just been handed the reins of the region, were making

some particularly bad decisions. And making matters worse for Canute's fledgling empire,

England was also starting to get pretty busy. In the previous year of 1030, King Canute and

Citric Silkbeard, the King of Dublin, had launched a raid on the Welsh. And this citric was almost

certainly the same one who had been appearing as a witness in Canute's charters lately. And his

presence in the English court, combined with this joint raid, suggests that Canute was making

efforts to expand its influence over Dublin, in addition to his power in England and Scandinavia.

But that's not all that was happening. A monk by the name of Ralph Glaver, who was writing

it about the same time as these events, tells us that England was locked in a protracted war with

Scotland. And that's a drum that I've been hitting repeatedly throughout this series. And you might

have been wondering why they were fighting. Well, we're not told specifically, but it's quite

likely that I was over what Canute was always fighting over. He wanted to be in charge, and he didn't

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