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Hereward expected King Sweyn II of Denmark to conquer England, and joining forces with Danish sailors, he sacked the abbey, possibly to prevent its treasures from falling into the hands of Turold, the new Norman abbot. When Sweyn made peace with William the Danes went home, but Hereward set up a base of operations on the Isle of Ely that would serve as a refuge for Anglo-Saxon rebels, including the onetime Earl Morcar of Northumbria. William eventually captured the isle, but Hereward escaped. He became the subject of legend and was the hero of the novel, Hereward the Wake, by Charles Kingsley.

 

 

Question 23

Harold Godwinson's family was powerful during Edward the Confessor's reign, and in the process of clearing Edward's Norman supporters out of England, they managed to run off the Archbishop of Canterbury. Who did they install in his place?

Edward the Martyr

Lanfranc

Robert of Jumièges

Stigand

 

 

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