Sweyn Forkbeard's 1004 campaign in East Anglia devastated Norfolk and Suffolk. He burned Norwich and Thetford. Ulfketel Snillingr of East Anglia attacked the Danes as they returned to their ships and came close to destroying the fleet — Sweyn himself reportedly acknowledged that the Danes had never faced harder fighting in England. Ulfketel became a celebrated resistance figure.
Heavy Danish and English losses; near-destruction of Danish fleet averted
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