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

by Laurence Marcellus Larson

[238] Chronicon Abbatiæ de Evesham, 325-326.

[239] Historia Rameseiensis, 127-128.

[240] Simeon of Durham, Opera Omnia, i., 90.

[241] Liebermann, Gesetze der Angelsachsen, i., 298.

[242] Most of these details are from Osbern's tract on the life and translation of Saint Alphege. See Langebek, Scriptores, ii., or Wharton's Anglia Sacra, ii. The account in the Chronicle is briefer but more reliable.

[243] Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus, Nos. 727 and 731; of these the former is scarcely genuine.

[244] William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum, i., 224.

[245] Liber de Hyda, xxxvi.

[246] Ibid., 324.

[247] Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus, No. 740.