[359] Munch, Det norske Folks Historie, I., ii., 704, 705.
[360] Encomium Emmæ, ii., c. 19. The Encomiast is intensely partisan and much given to exaggeration; but we cannot reject the statement as to the English oath without convicting him of a worse fault for which there was scarcely a sufficient motive at the time when the Encomium was composed.
[361] Snorre, Saga of Saint Olaf, c. 130.
[362] Corpus Poeticum Boreale, ii., 135-136.
[363] Steenstrup, Venderne og de Danske, 64-65. The name occurs in the Liber Vibæ of Winchester in a list of benefactors. See above p. 57.
[364] Steenstrup, Venderne og de Danske, 65. Florence of Worcester, Chronicon, i., 199.
[365] Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus, No. 743.
[366] After Canute's death, Godescalc returned to his native country and took up the cause of Christian mission effort among the heathen Wends. Adamus, Gesta, ii., cc. 64, 75.
[367] Snorre, Saga of Saint Olaf, c. 247.
[368] Mon. Ger. Hist., Scriptores, iv., 134; Adémar's Chronicle, ii., c. 41.