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properties of all his people. The Danes weregradually incorporated with his new subjects; andboth were glad to obtain a little respite fromthose multiplied calamities, from which the one,no less than the other, had, in their fierce contest/or power, experienced such fatal consequences.

The removal of Edmond’s children into sodistant a country as Hungary, was, next to theirdeath , regarded by Canute as the greatest securityto his government: He had no farther anxiety,except with regard to Alfred and Edward, whowere protected and supported by their uncle ,Richard, duke of Normandy. Richard even fittedout a great armament, in order to restore theEnglish princes to the throne of their ancestors;and though the navy was dispersed by a storm ,Canute saw the danger to which he was exposed,from the enmity of so warlike a people as theNormans. In order to acquire the friendship ofthe duke, he paid his addresses to queen Emma,the sister of that prince; and promised, that hewould leg.ve the children, whom he should haveby that marriage , in possession of the crown ofEngland. Rjchard complied with his demand, andsent over Emma to England, where she was soonafter married to Canute ". The English, thoughthey disapproved of her espousing the mortalenemy of her former husband and his family, wettzpleased to find at court a sovereign , to whomthey were accustomed, and who had already formed

" Chron. Sax. p. iZi. W. Malmes. p. 73-

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