User:Projectfear22/Alli the viking

Viking raid in the Caspian Sea they might have taken muslim vives. posibility that there from comes the name Alli.

King Aethelred of England pays tribute to Viking raiders (Danegeld). 1012

In the summer of 1015, Cnut's fleet set sail for England with a Danish army of perhaps 10,000 in 200 longships.[26] Cnut was at the head of an array of Vikings from all over Scandinavia. The invasion force was to engage in often close and grisly warfare with the English for the next fourteen months. Practically all of the battles were fought against Aethelred's son, Edmund Ironside.

In 1018, having collected a Danegeld amounting to the colossal sum of £72,000 levied nationwide, with an additional £10,500 extracted from London, Cnut paid off his army and sent most of them home. He retained 40 ships and their crews as a standing force in England. An annual tax called heregeld (army payment) was collected through the same system Aethelred had instituted in 1012 to reward Scandinavians in his service[42]

Cnut was to rule England for almost twenty years. The protection he lent against Viking raiders – with many of them under his command – restored the prosperity that had been increasingly impaired since the resumption of Viking attacks in the 980s. The resources he commanded in England helped him to establish control of the majority of Scandinavia too.

U 194 runestone is in memory of a Viking known as Alli, says he won Knútr's payment in England.

"Áli/Alli had this stone raised in memory of himself. He took Knútr's payment in England. May God help his spirit."