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The Power of Knut the Great
In this period, in the period that we're talking about, sheer numbers don't really do very much. What matters is tactics. In each place that we've seen him, in Norway, in Denmark, and in England, he doesn't have to directly have those troops. He makes alliances with disaffected noblemen who have those kinds of men. And it's a very clever tactic. It doesn't directly destroy or affect the troops that he is faced with. He just makes their lives impossible.