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From CANUTE The Great 1912 by Laurence Marcellus Larson

To slay the children of a "brother" who had committed them to his care and protection must have seemed to Canute a rude and perhaps risky procedure ; it was therefore thought best to send them out of the land. Accordingly the ethelings were sent to the "king of the Slavs," who was instructed to remove them from the land of the living. This particular king was evidently Canute's maternal uncle— the might Boleslav, duke and later king of Poland. Boleslav took pity on the poor children and failed to dispose of them as requested. In 1025, he was succeeded by his son Mieczislav, who entered into close relations with King Stephen of Hungary. (Etc.)

CANUTE THE GREAT   995 (circ)-1034 by L.M. Larson
New York and London : Putnam 1912, p. 126.