Canute the Great, 995 (circa)-1035, and the Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age

by Laurence Marcellus Larson

[73] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1013.

[74] Snorre, Saga of Saint Olaf, cc. 12-13. The story in the saga has the appearance of genuineness and is based on the contemporary verses of Ottar the Swart. Snorre's chronology, however, is much confused.

[75] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1013.

[76] William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum, i., 209.

[77] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1013.

[78] Encomium Emmæ, i., c. 5; see also Saxo, Gesta, 342.

[79] Memorials of Saint Edmund's Abbey, i., 34 ff.

[80] Adamus, Gesta, ii., c. 39.

[81] Wimmer, De danske Runemindesmærker, I., ii., 117.

[82] Liber Vitæ, 58. Steenstrup suggests that the name may be Slavic and calls attention to the Slavic form Svantoslava (Venderne og de Danske, 64-65).