Anglo-Danish Empire: A Companion to the Reign of King Cnut the Great

573 Pages·2022·11.69 MB·English

by  Richard North, Erin Goeres, Alison Finlay

Anglo-DanishEmpire
The Northern Medieval World
On the Margins of Europe
Editorial Board
CarolyneLarrington,St.John’sCollege,Oxford(Chair)
OrenFalk,CornellUniversity
DawnHadley,UniversityofYork
KateHeslop,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley
JanaSchulman,WesternMichiganUniversity
JónViðarSigurðsson,UniversitetetiOslo
Anglo-Danish
Empire
A Companion to the Reign of King Cnut the Great
Edited by
Richard North, Erin Goeres, and Alison Finlay
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Contents
Abbreviations IX
ListofFigures XI
ListofMaps XV
ListofTables XVII
Acknowledgments XIX
ErinGoeresandRichardNorth
Prologue
“KingofDanes,Irish,EnglishandIsland-Dwellers”:
AnAudiencewithKnútrinnRíki 1
Part I:Cnut’s Conquest
AndrewReynolds
Chapter1
LondonintotheAgeofCnut:AnArchaeologicalPerspective 21
JulianM.C.Bowsher
Chapter2
CoinsofÆthelredIIandCnuttheGreatfromLondonExcavations 65
JohnClark
Chapter3
Early-Eleventh-CenturyWeaponsfromtheSiteofOldLondonBridge:
AReassessment 75
SimonKeynes
Chapter4
TheReignofKingÆthelredtheUnreadyinMultipleMaps 97
VI Contents
ZoyaMetlitskaya
Chapter5
TheÆthelredianFragmentoftheAnglo-SaxonChronicleandthe
PersonalityofitsAuthor 113
MichaelTreschow
Chapter6
Æthelred’sDeathandtheAnglo-SaxonChronicle’sTone 129
DavidMcDermott
Chapter7
KingEdmundIIIronsideandtheSiegeofLondon,1016 145
Part II:Cnut’sKingdom
RyanLavelle
Chapter8
Cnut,KingoftheEnglish,1017–1019 169
EleanorParker
Chapter9
“InLondon,VeryJustly”:Cnut’sEnglishReputationandtheDeathof
EadricStreona 191
BarbaraYorke
Chapter10
Cnut’sInteractionwithWinchester:AReassessment 209
SimonC.Thomson
Chapter11
HeroicLegend:SigmundrFáfnisbaniintheCourtofKingCnut 235
RussellPoole
Chapter12
AnIcelanderinCnut’sCourt:TheCaseofSigvatrÞórðarson 255
Contents VII
RichardNorth
Chapter13
BeholdtheFrontPage:CnutandtheScyldingsinBeowulf 277
Part III:Cnut’s Empire
JesperHjermind
Chapter14
“VuibergHicCoronaturRexDacie”:TheCrowningofKingCnutinViborg,
1019 305
MarieBønløkkeSpejlborg
Chapter15
KingCnutofEnglandandtheDanishHomelands 337
CaitlinEllis
Chapter16
Cnut’sEcclesiasticalPolicyintheContextofHisEnglishandDanish
Predecessors 355
EldbjørgHaug
Chapter17
Cnut’sGiftofaSwithun-relicto“Dacia”:AGifttoDenmarkor
Norway? 379
LauraAmalasuntaGazzoli
Chapter18
Cnut,hisDynasty,andtheElbe-Slavs 399
JakubMorawiec
Chapter19
Cnut’sReigninEnglandandDenmark:TheWesternSlavonic
Perspective 419
BarbaraE.Crawford
Chapter20
St.ClementofRome:PatronSaintofCnutandtheDynasty
ofDenmark 431
VIII Contents
TimothyBolton
Epilogue
CnutandthePotentialUsesandAbusesoftheLateNarrativeSources
fromNorthernScandinavia 459
NotesonContributors 485
GeneralBibliography 487
Index 535
Abbreviations
AD AnnoDomini(seealsoCE)
AJ ArchaeologicalJournal
ANS Anglo-NormanStudies
AntJ TheAntiquariesJournal
ASC Anglo-SaxonChronicle,gen.ed.,DumvilleandKeynes;trans.Swanton
ASE Anglo-SaxonEngland
ASPR Anglo-SaxonPoeticRecords
ASSAH Anglo-SaxonStudiesinArchaeologyandHistory
BAR BritishArchaeologicalReports
BL BritishLibrary
BNJ BritishNumismaticJournal
CCHAG CorpusChristianorum:Hagiographies
CE CommonEra(seealsoAD)
CR CoinRegister(annuallyinBNJ;seeGeneralBibliography)
DN DiplomatariumNorvegicum
EETS TheEarlyEnglishTextSociety
EHD1 EnglishHistoricalDocuments,ed.Whitelock
EHD2 EnglishHistoricalDocuments,ed.DouglasandGreenaway
EHR EnglishHistoricalReview
EMC CorpusofEarlyMedievalCoinFinds(www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/emc)
EME EarlyMedievalEurope
HSJ HaskinsSocietyJournal
ÍF ÍslenzkFornrit
KB DetKongeligeBibliothek(Copenhagen)
KLNM Kulturhistoriskleksikonfornordiskmiddelalder(ogvikingtid)
LArch LondonArchaeologist
MGH MonumentaGermaniaeHistorica
MoLAM MuseumofLondonArchaeologyMonographs
MoM Maalogminne
MS MediaevalScandinavia
N&Q Notes&Queries
NMS NottinghamMedievalStudies
NOWELE North-WesternEuropeanLanguageEvolution
PAS PortableAntiquitiesScheme
PBA ProceedingsoftheBritishAcademy
SRG ScriptoresrerumGermanicaruminusumscholarumseparatimediti
SS ScandinavianStudies
TLAMAS TransactionsoftheLondonandMiddlesexArchaeologicalSociety
TRHS TransactionsoftheRoyalHistoricalSociety
vv. verse(s)
VMS VikingandMedievalScandinavia
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