The armies of Swein Forkbeard and Cnut: <i>leding</i> or <i>lið?</i>
Niels Lund
The problem to be discussed in this paper concerns the organization of those Viking armies which under leadership Swein Forkbeard and his son Cnut succeeded conquering England second decade eleventh century: were forces these kings privately organized, like ones operating ninth century, or they state recruited on basis a public obligation all free men serve king war?
Anglo-Saxon England