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In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Importance of Success

In 1018, he gets a huge amount of English tax money and uses it to pay the Danes. So part of what he's able to do is capitalise on all of that control. And he's paying the Danes as well to stay away from England. It's not just, thank you for helping me get England,. It's now stay away. Don't tread on my toes. I mean, he's got three kingdoms already. Is there anything, any one thing that defines him is success? He's a convenient. He's transnational. He's a quintessential migrant who knows exactly how to work in the new place that he finds himself in but never loses sight

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