A contemporary account claims that this king defecated in a baptismal font as an infant, and that he paid the first Danegeld after Olaf Tryggvason defeated his forces at the Battle of Maldon

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1. A contemporary account claims that this king defecated in a baptismal font as an infant, and that he paid the first Danegeld after Olaf Tryggvason defeated his forces at the Battle of Maldon