The Chronicle records a significant engagement in Hampshire in 1001 in which Danish forces — including the defector Pallig, a Danish nobleman previously in English service — defeated a Hampshire force. Aethelred's inability to retain the loyalty of Scandinavian retainers like Pallig, who rejoined the raiders, illustrates the endemic political weakness of his reign. The £24,000 Danegeld paid that year was the largest to date.
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