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

by Laurence Marcellus Larson

[178] Florence of Worcester, Chronicon, i., 158.

[179] Encomium Emmæ, ii., c. 16.

[180] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1018.

[181] Historiola Legum Castrensum Regis Canuti Magni, c. 2. The Historiola is found in Langebek, Scriptores Rerum Danicarum, iii.

[182] Sveno, Historiola, cc. 5-9. Saxo, Gesta Danorum,351 ff.

[183] Langebek, Scriptores, iii., 151 (note). The story is probably mythical; but I give it as a fitting companion to the English stories of Canute and the tide, and of his improvised verses inspired by the chants of the monks of Ely.

[184] Florence of Worcester, Chronicon, i., 195.

[185] Saxo, Gesta Danorum, 351.

[186] Larson, The King's Household in England, 163-167.

[187] The Kolstad Stone. Montelius, Kulturgeschichte Schwedens, 267.