In 1004, Sweyn Forkbeard\'s Danish fleet raided deep into East Anglia, burning Norwich and then Thetford. Ulfketel Snilling assembled an army hastily and ambushed the Danes as they returned to their ships, inflicting significant losses and nearly capturing the Danish fleet. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that the Danes themselves said they never met harder hand-strokes in England. Ulfketel\'s action was the most successful English resistance of the period, though the Danes escaped with their plunder.
Danish: Sweyn Forkbeard\'s fleet. English: Ulfketel Snilling\'s East Anglian levy — hastily assembled
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