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Can someone please tell me what the Danelaw was!? I know it was in response to the Viking Invasions, but I also know that the first unification of England was under the Danish king Cnut!. So did Cnut pass the Danelaw since he was Danish, or did the Anglo Saxons create this as a way to repel the threat!? also, after Cnuts death, did the Anglo Saxons take back over!? He died 30 something years before the Norman invasion!.

I have a midterm tomorrow, and this aspect is just really confusing to me!. Thanks for your helpWww@QuestionHome@Com


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Danelaw was the theory and practice of law in northern and NE England during the 9th-10th centuries and influenced by Danish practice (few people know that Denmark, the smallest of the Scandinavian countries, was the power of the day and invaded and colonized that portion of England)!. In 878 The Saxon king Alfred (Alfred the Great) met with the Dane Gundelaw and legally divided the country!. The Saxons were allowed to adhere to their own laws and the Danes to theirs, with no interference!. This arrangement lasted until 1066 when Harold (actually, he was Harald, a Dane) was defeated at the Battle of Hastings by the Norman William the Conqueror, ironically a descendant of Vikings and the Britons (Gaels, related to Scots, Irish, and Welsh) who fled to France when the Angles and the Saxons invaded after the Romans left, about 250 a!.d!. C'mon, ask me a hard one !. !. lWww@QuestionHome@Com