[148] Steenstrup places his age at twenty-two (Danmarks Riges Historie, i., 385). Munch thinks that he was several years older. (Det norske Folks Historie, I., ii., 126-127).
[149] Corpus Poeticum Boreale, ii., 155. (Vigfusson's translation.)
[150] Liebermann, Gesetze der Angelsachsen, i., 274.
[151] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1020.
[152] The first recorded absence was in the winter of 1019 and 1020; Canute returned in time for the Easter festivities. The Chronicler tells of another return from Denmark in 1023; as this return was earlier than the translation of Saint Alphege in June, the absence must have been during the winter months. See the Chronicle for these years.
[153] Von Friesen, Historiska Runinskrifter (Fornvännen, 1909), 58. Von Friesen suggests that the chief Tosti who paid the first geld may have been Skogul-Tosti, the father of Sigrid the Haughty (pp. 71-72). For other monuments alluding to the Danegeld, see ibid., 58, 74-75; Montelius, Kulturgeschichte Schwedens, 267: the Össeby Stone.
[154] The statement of the Chronicle (1017) that he divided England into four parts may imply that some sort of sanction was sought from the witan; but such an act would merely recognise accomplished facts.
[155] For the evidence see the author's paper in American Historical Review, xv., 725.
[156] Munch, Det norske Folks Historie, I., ii., 392.
[157] Encomium Emmæ, ii., c. 7.