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Cnute saileth into Denmarke to subdue the Vandals, earle Goodwins good seruice with the English against the said Vandals, and what benefit accrewed vnto the Englishmen by the said good seruice, he returneth into England after the discomfiture of the enimie, he saileth ouer againe into Denmarke and incountreth with the Sweideners, the occasion of this warre or incounter taken by Olauus, his hard hap, vnluckie fortune, and wofull death wrought by the hands of his owne vnnaturall subiects; Cnuts confidence in the Englishmen, his deuout voiage to Rome, his returne into England, his subduing of the Scots, his death and interrement.

THE TWELFTH CHAPTER.

[Sidenote:  1019.  King Cnute passeth into Denmarke.] In the third yeare of his reigne Cnute sailed with an armie of Englishmen and Danes into Denmarke, to subdue the Vandals there, which [Sidenote:  Earle Goodwin his seruice in Denmarke.] then sore annoied and warred against his subiects of Denmarke.  Earle Goodwine, which had the souereigne conduct of the Englishmen, the night before the day appointed for the battell got him forth of the campe with his people, and suddenlie assailing the Vandals in their lodgings, easilie distressed them, sleaing a great number of them, and chasing the residue.  In the morning earlie, when as Cnute heard that the Englishmen were gone foorth of their lodgings, he supposed that they were either fled awaie, or else turned to take part with the enimies.  But as he approched to the enimies campe, he vnderstood how the mater went; for he found nothing there but [Sidenote:  Cnute had the Englishmen in estimation for their good service.] bloud, dead bodies, and the spoile.  For which good seruice, Cnute had the Englishmen in more estimation euer after, and highlie rewarded their leader the same earle Goodwine.  When Cnute had ordered all things in Denmarke, as was thought behoofefull, he returned againe into England:  and within a few daies after, he was aduertised that the Swedeners made warre against his subiects of Denmarke, vnder the [Sidenote:  1028.  Cnute passeth againe into Denmarke.] leding of two great princes, Vlfe and Vlafe.  Wherefore to defend his dominions in those parts, he passed againe with an armie into Denmarke, incountred with his enimies, and receiued a sore ouerthrow, [Sidenote:  Will.  Malm.] loosing a great number both of Danes and Englishmen.  But gathering togither a new force of men, he set againe vpon his enimies, and ouercame them, constreining the two foresaid princes to agree vpon [Sidenote:  Matt.  Westm.] reasonable conditions of peace.  Matth.  West. recounteth, that at this time earle Goodwine and the Englishmen wrought the enterprise aboue mentioned, of assaulting the enimies campe in the night season, after Cnute had first lost in the day before no small number of his people:  and that then the foresaid princes or kings, as he nameth them Vlfus [Sidenote:  Albertus Crantz.]