After the murder of Archbishop Alphege at Greenwich in 1012, Thorkell the Tall, who had reportedly tried to protect Alphege, switched sides and entered the service of King Aethelred with 45 ships. This was a dramatic defection: one of the leading Danish commanders of the Second Viking Age became an English mercenary. Thorkell subsequently fought for Aethelred and then for Cnut, serving as regent of Denmark.
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