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father of Cnut the Great. A skaldic tradition describes the bridge's destruction in 1014 by Æthelred's ally Olaf, to divide the Danish forces who held both the walled City of London and Southwark. The earliest contemporary written reference to a Saxon bridge is , when chroniclers mention how Cnut's ships bypassed the crossing during his war to regain the throne from Edmund Ironside.

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