Ok senn sonu
sló, hvern ok þó,
Aðalráðs eða
út flæmði Knútr.
Ok Knútr sló senn eða flæmði út sonu Aðalráðs, ok þó hvern.
And Knútr soon defeated or drove out the sons of Æthelred, and indeed, each one.
[4] flæmði út ‘drove out’: There is an unusually close parallel to this phrase, and indeed to the whole helmingr, in the ASC (s. a. 1017), describing the very same event: 7 Cnut cyning afly<m>de ut Eadwig æþeling 7 eft hine het ofslean ‘And King Cnut drove out Eadwig the atheling and afterwards ordered him to be killed’ (version C, ed. O’Brien O’Keeffe 2001, 103). OE (of)slean and ON slá are also cognate. See further the case for OE influence in Hofmann (1955, 88-90).