Received the submission of the FIve Burroughs of the Danish confederacy, 1015. Crowned in London, 1016. Defeated Cnut at Pen in Somerset and at Sherston, Wiltshire. Utterly routed at Assandun (Ashington in Essex). Gave the north of England to Cnut by treay made in Olney, an island of the Severn, 1016. His death due to a suden sickness, or possibly to the murderous resentment of Eadric. Famous for his bodily strength (The concise dictionary of national biography. Part 1 : from the beginnings till 1900. London : Oxford University Press, 1969, pg. 385).