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1029.
This year King Cnut returned home to England.
1030.
This year King Olaf returned to Norway, and the people rose against him, and fought with him, and he was slain.
1031.
This year as soon as King Cnut came to England, he granted to Christ's Church, in Canterbury, the harbour of Sandwich with all the profits therefrom arising, on either side of the haven, to this distance, namely, that when the tide runs highest and is fully in, and a ship can ride as near the shore as possible, a man should stand in the ship holding a small axe in his hand, "and as far as he could throw this axe on shore, so far should their rights extend." This year King Cnut journeyed to Rome, and the same year after his return he went into Scotland, and the Scotch King Malcolm, with two other Kings, Mælbaæthe and Iehmarc, submitted to him. And Robert Earl of Normandy went to Jerusalem and died there, and he was succeeded in Normandy by William then a child, who was afterwards King of England.
1032.
This year there were terrible lightnings, such
