by Ben Patterson Following on from the last instalment: Cnut The Great Our last instalment covered the Danelaw, from its zenith under Cnut the Great to its waning as the reign of Edward the Confessor began in 1042. One would not be remiss to think of this as the end of the Viking Age, but that would come twenty-four years later, in the fateful year of 1066 – the year when the fate of England was set, when the King of England desperately fought to protect his people from being