62,66,67;deserts to Canute,68,116;fights at Penselwood and Sherstone,88,89;fights at Ashington,96;Canute's chief counsellor and viceroy in England,110-112,138,177,342;Earl of East Anglia,115,116,138,170;marries Ethelred's daughter,117,118,146;exiled from England,117,118,146,147,150,157;reconciled to Canute,118,147,158,211;viceroy in Denmark,118,159,208,211;death of,159,211Thurkil, grandson of Thurkil the Tall,249Thyra, Queen of Denmark,5-7Thyra, Queen of Norway, Canute's aunt,12,15,33Tithing,280Tjängvide Stone, pictured rock,302Tjotta, Isle of,200Toki,seePalna TokiTosti, Swedish viking,113,114n.Tova, Queen of Denmark,14,15Treene River,5Trent River,50,52,61Trygve, Norwegian pretender,319Tunsberg, city in Norway,204,208,243,287Tweed River,139-141UUhtred, Earl of Northumbria,50,78-81,114,115,120,140Ulf, Canute's brother-in-law, one of Canute's generals,102;Earl in England,119,121;Earl in Jomburg,159;viceroy in Denmark,159,208,212;treason of,212-215,220,327;rescues Canute at Holy River,218,222;murder of,8,221,222,322,327,340;character of,211,212,221,222Ulf, Swedish viking,113,114Ulfkellsland,66,95Ulfketel, Earl of East Anglia,41,43,66,67,95,114,115Ulfrun, Elgiva's mother,128Unwan, Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen,160,191,272-274Uplands, the, district in Norway,315Uppland, region in Sweden,12,113,134Upsala, Swedish sanctuary at,185,186VVandals,159Varangians, Scandinavian guard at Byzantium,149Vercelli Book, the,297Viborg, Danish sanctuary at,212Vikings, the,15,18,22-27,44,49,61,75,76,84,94,113,135,136,180,184,277,285,286,291,293,294,303,306,327,329,330Vineland,17Vistula River,153,158,258,267Volsungs, the, saga heroes,292Voluspá,292;seeSibyl's ProphecyWWales,28,136,329,335Walhalla,302Wallingford,52Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria,140Wapentake,281Warwick,78Waterford,18Watling Street,50Wayland Smith, saga hero,302Wendland,3,34,82,129,153,158-160,199,267;seeSlavic landsWessex, expansion of,23;attacked and plundered by the Danes,24,45,49,59,297;submits to Canute,78,83,104,105;given to Edmund at Deerhurst,97;Danegeld levied in,98;under Canute's rule,112,115,261;retains Saxon character,332;supports claims of Harthacanute,334Westminster,336Wexford,18Wick, the, district in Norway,3,204,241,252Wicklow,18Widukind, of Corvey, chronicler, cited,8Wight, Isle of,53,85,157Wiht, Wihtland,seeWitlandWilliam, Bishop of Roeskild,261,262William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy,107,113,253,267,279,280William the Great, Duke of Aquitaine,264,265,298William of Jumièges, Norman chronicler,254William of Malmesbury, Norman-English historian, cited,45,101,167,168,171Wiltshire,78,88Wimmer, Ludvig, Danish runologist, cited,6Winchester, capital of England,25,50;Canute's residential city,112,164,190,194,203,245,260,261,291,293,332;see of,169,312;Canute's gifts to monasteries of,175,176,313;scalds at the court of,294;Canute buried in,321;other mention of,166,172Wisby,287Witenagemot,312;seeGemotWitigern, Slavic prince,247,263Witland,157,158,258Woden, old Northern divinity,94,182,183,185,201,299,308,318Wollin, island and village near the mouth of the Oder,154,155Worcester, Florence of,seeFlorenceWorcestershire,21,119Worsaae, J.J.A., Danish antiquarian, cited,20n.Writing, runic,298Wrytsleof, Slavic prince,263;seeWitigernWulfstan, Archbishop of York,112,169,296Wulfstan, English traveller,158Wyrtgeorn,seeWitigernYYggdrasil, mythical ash tree,307York,19,21,57,79,81,85,176,177,281,296,312,344Yule festival, old Northern,186,187,275,307ZZealand,6,190,213,215,220