Ealdorman Ulfcytel of East Anglia, later called Ulfcytel Snillingr (the Bold), organised the most effective English resistance of the Second Viking Age. In 1004 Sweyn Forkbeard raided East Anglia, sacking Norwich and Thetford. Ulfcytel met the Danes in the field and inflicted significant casualties before being driven back. The Danes reportedly said they had never met harder hand-play in England than Ulfcytel gave them.
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