Cnut conquers Norway
1028
Sailing north with fifty ships laden with English silver, the Danish-English king exploited Norwegian discontent with Olaf Haraldsson. The exile of St. Olaf gave Cnut a North Sea empire stretching from Dublin to the Gulf of Finland. It was an empire no later Scandinavian king would ever match, a maritime dominion held together by silver, intimidation, and the personal magnetism of a single ruler.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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