Sweyn Forkbeard's 1013 campaign was not a raid but a systematic conquest. Landing at Gainsborough, the Five Boroughs and Northumbria submitted immediately. Oxford, Winchester, and most of England followed. London — where Aethelred and Thorkell the Tall still held out — finally submitted. Aethelred fled to Normandy. Sweyn was accepted as king of all England, though he died only five weeks later in February 1014.
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