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From CANUTE The Great 1912 by Laurence Marcellus Larson

In that [tenth] century Denmark was easily the greatest power in the North. From the Scanian frontiers to the confines of modern Sleswick it extended over"belts" and islands, closing completely the entrance to the Baltic. There were Danish outposts on the Slavic shores of modern [1912] Prussia* ; the larger part of Norway came for some years to be a vassal state under the great earl, Hakon the Bad ; the Wick, which comprised the shores of the great inlet that is now known as the Christiana Firth, was regarded as a component part of the Danish monarchy, though in fact the obedience rendered anywhere in Norway was very slight.

In the legendary age a famous dynasty known as the Shielding appears to have ruled over Danes and Jutes. the ; family took its name from a mythical ancestor, King Shield, whose coming to the Daneland is told in the opening lines of the Old English epic Beowulf.   (Etc.)

CANUTE THE GREAT   995 (circ)-1034 by L.M. Larson
New York and London : Putnam 1912, p. 3.