Rise To Power
Adam tells that after Sygtrigg reigned a short time, during the tenure of Archbishop Hoger of Bremen (909-915/917), Harthacnut (Danish: Hardeknud), son of king Sweyn, came from "Northmannia," the "land of the Northmen," by which he may have meant Norway, Normandy, which had recently been colonized by Danish Vikings, or even northern Jutland. Harthacnut immediately deposed the young king Sigtrygg, and then ruled unopposed for approximately thirty years. However, the Saxon chronicles of Widukind of Corvey report the defeat and forced baptism of the Danish king Chnuba in 936 at the hands of German king Henry. Likewise, Olav Tryggvasson's Saga tells of Gnupa's defeat by Gorm the Old. Some historians (e.g. Storm) have taken these as indications that Sigtrygg's father Gnupa still ruled at least part of Denmark much later than credited by Adam of Bremen.
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