[280] Adamus, Gesta, ii., c. 55.

[281] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1050. Anglia Sacra, i., 167.

[282] An illustration of this appears on a runic monument at Odderness in Southern Norway raised in memory of a godson of Saint Olaf: "Oivind, Saint Olaf's godson [kosunr or gosunr] raised this church on his allodial land."

[283] For the account of the Anglo-Saxon missionaries I am indebted to Taranger's work on the influence of the Anglo-Saxon on the Norwegian Church: Den Angelsaksiske Kirkes Indflydelse paa den norske.

[284] Gesta, ii., c. 55; iv., c. 33. The embassy was probably sent some time during the years 1020-1023, and perhaps shortly before Canute accepted the supremacy of Hamburg-Bremen in Denmark.

[285] This paragraph is summarised from Professor Bugge's discussion in Norges Historie, I., ii., 379-381.


CHAPTER IX

CANUTE AND THE NORWEGIAN CONSPIRACY—1023-1026