Ulf Jarl
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Ulf Thorgilsson, commonly known as Ulf Jarl or Earl Ulf, was a Danish jarl of Skåne and regent of Denmark. Ulf was the son of Thorgil Sprakling and the father of King Sweyn II of Denmark, and thus the
King Canute and Earl Ulf as imagined by Morris Meredith Williams in 1913
Battle of Helgeå
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The Battle of Helgeå, or Battle of the Holy River, was a naval engagement that took place in 1026 between joint Danish and English forces and a combined Norwegian and Swedish force, at the estuary of
Ulf Jarl
…ruler of Denmark. When Cnut learnt what had happened, he returned to Denmark and fought naval engagement against the Swedish and Norwegian forces at the Battle of the Helgeå. The victory left Cnut as the dominant leader in Scandinavia. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which instead places the battle a year earlier in 1025, names…
Olav den helliges saga GM15