tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post2490034848210984237..comments2024-03-25T20:43:33.067+00:00Comments on A Clerk of Oxford: The Danish Conquest, 1000 Years: Part 6Clerk of Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-76125938663992820442015-08-21T19:58:35.646+01:002015-08-21T19:58:35.646+01:00Responding, not as a historian, but from the persp...Responding, not as a historian, but from the perspective of a novelist who has to get inside Cnut's head: Re those hostages. I'm going to sound callous and cruel here (as callous and cruel as Cnut, and he surely was). But in 1002 the Anglo-Saxons, per Aethelred's order, beheaded Danes, including hostages, and even burned some of them alive (St. Frideswide's Church). Over in Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17498095239066734002noreply@blogger.com