Description
An edition and translation of the (anonymous?) skaldic poem Liðsmannaflokkr ('The Soldier’s Song') by Richard North, detailing the capture of London by Earl Thorkell the Tall and Cnut in 1016. The edition and translation is excerpted from The Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures, Edited by Richard North, Joe Allard, Patricia Gillies (2010). Reproduced with permission of the author.