Pallig
Pallig
"And they went thence west until they came to Devon; and there Paley [Pallig] came to meet them, with the ships which he could gather, because he had fled from king Ethelred, contrary to all the plighted troth that he had given him; and the king had also well gifted him with houses, and with gold and with silver. And they burned Teignton, and also many other good towns which we are unable to name; and there, afterwards, peace was made with them" [3]
Later tradition credits him as the Earldoman of Devon[citation needed] however there seems to be little contemporary support for this position. Yorke[2] only refers to him as a Viking Leader, not as an Earldoman.
He is said to have been killed in the
Sweyn's invasions from 1002 may have been partly in revenge for the murder of his sister. It has been proposed that it was actually Pallig's desertion that led to the St. Brice's Day Masscre, and that the slaughter was partly Æthelred's revenge.[4]
Notes
- ^ Palling, Palnig, Palne.
- ^ a b [1],[2]; , Barbara Yorke, Wessex in the Early Middle Ages (1995), p. 134.
- ^ "Page:The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Giles).djvu/111 - Wikisource, the free online library". en.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
- ^ Ryan Lavelle, Aethelred II: King of the English, The History Press, 2008, pp. 104-105