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wars. He was wedded to a wife of Danish blood,
and his two eldest children, Swein and Harold, bore
the Danish names of Cnut's elder boys. It was
no wonder, therefore, that he supported, on Cnut's
death, the continuance of that union of England
with Denmark which Harthacnut's succession se-
cured.

But the internal policy of both king and minis-
ter had made their outer policy impossible. Their
whole system of government and administration had
nursed English feeling into a new and vigorous life.
To England Cnut had been an English king. If
he had ruled other lands it was from Winchester,
as dependencies of his English crown. The very
Danes who had settled in England had learned
through his long and peaceful reign to look on
themselves as Englishmen, and on Denmark as a
foreign land. But Harthacnut had scarcely been
seen in England; from early childhood he had been
trained in Denmark as its king, and it might well
be thought that his rule meant the rule of England
from a Danish throne. If the influence of Godwine
and the Lady Emma at Winchester was strong
enough to hold the West-Saxon earldom true to the
claims of Harthacnut, the rest of England called for
a national king. In pleading for the succession of
Harthacnut, Godwine doubtless seemed to the peo-
ple at large to be pleading for Danish rule. To his
fellow earls he seemed no doubt pleading for his
own, and political rivalry united with national feel-
ing in urging Earl Leofric of Mercia to withstand
him. It marks the hold which Cnut's greatness had
given him on the affections of Englishmen, that even

Godwine's
Policy.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Conquest of England. Contributors: John Richard Green - author, Alice Stopford Green - author. Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1884. Page Number: 461.
    
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