Editing Norman Conquest (section)

===Danish troubles===
{{Further|Danish attacks on Norman England| Ely Rebellion}}
[[File:Coin king of denmark sven estridsen.jpg|Coin of Sweyn II of Denmark|thumb|right]]
In 1070 Sweyn II arrived to take personal command of his fleet and renounced the earlier agreement to withdraw, sending troops into [[the Fens]] to join forces with English rebels led by [[Hereward the Wake]],{{efn|Although the [[epithet]] "the Wake" has been claimed to be derived from "the wakeful one", the first use of the epithet is from the mid-13th century, and is thus unlikely to have been contemporary.<ref name=HerewardDNB>Roffe "Hereward" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref>}} at that time based on the [[Isle of Ely]]. Sweyn accepted a payment of [[danegeld]] from William and returned home.<ref name=Douglas221>Douglas ''William the Conqueror'' pp. 221–222</ref> After the departure of the Danes, the Fenland rebels remained at large, protected by the marshes, and early in 1071 there was a [[Ely Rebellion|final outbreak]] of rebel activity in the area. Edwin and Morcar again turned against William, and although Edwin was quickly betrayed and killed, Morcar reached [[Ely, Cambridgeshire|Ely]], where he and Hereward were joined by exiled rebels who had sailed from Scotland. William arrived with an army and a fleet to finish off this last pocket of resistance. After some costly failures, the Normans managed to construct a pontoon to reach the Isle of Ely, defeated the rebels at the bridgehead and stormed the island, marking the effective end of English resistance.<ref name=Williams49>Williams ''English and the Norman Conquest'' pp. 49–57</ref> Morcar was imprisoned for the rest of his life; Hereward was pardoned and had his lands returned to him.<ref name=Huscroft146>Huscroft ''Norman Conquest'' pp. 146–147</ref>