Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Abbreviations IX
4. List of Figures XI
5. List of Maps XV
6. List of Tables XVII
7. Acknowledgments XIX
8. Prologue “King of Danes, Irish, English and Island- Dwellers”: An Audience with Knútr inn Ríki 1
9. Part I: Cnut’s Conquest
10. Chapter 1 London into the Age of Cnut: An Archaeological Perspective 21
11. Chapter 2 Coins of Æthelred II and Cnut the Great from London Excavations 65
12. Chapter 3 Early-Eleventh-Century Weapons from the Site of Old London Bridge: A Reassessment 75
13. Chapter 4 The Reign of King Æthelred the Unready in Multiple Maps 97
14. Chapter 5 The Æthelredian Fragment of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Personality of its Author 113
15. Chapter 6 Æthelred’s Death and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’s Tone 129
16. Chapter 7 King Edmund II Ironside and the Siege of London, 1016 145
17. Part II: Cnut’s Kingdom
18. Chapter 8 Cnut, King of the English, 1017–1019 169
19. Chapter 9 “In London, Very Justly”: Cnut’s English Reputation and the Death of Eadric Streona 191
20. Chapter 10 Cnut’s Interaction with Winchester: A Reassessment 209
21. Chapter 11 Heroic Legend: Sigmundr Fáfnisbani in the Court of King Cnut 235
22. Chapter 12 An Icelander in Cnut’s Court: The Case of Sigvatr Þórðarson 255
23. Chapter 13 Behold the Front Page: Cnut and the Scyldings in Beowulf 277
24. Part III: Cnut’s Empire
25. Map: The empire of Cnut the Great (1016–1035). 303
26. Chapter 14 “Vuiberg Hic Coronatur Rex Dacie”: The Crowning of King Cnut in Viborg, 1019 305
27. Chapter 15 King Cnut of England and the Danish Homelands 337
28. Chapter 16 Cnut’s Ecclesiastical Policy in the Context of His English and Danish Predecessors 355
29. Chapter 17 Cnut’s Gift of a Swithun-relic to “Dacia”: A Gift to Denmark or Norway? 379
30. Chapter 18 Cnut, his Dynasty, and the Elbe-Slavs 399
31. Chapter 19 Cnut’s Reign in England and Denmark: The Western Slavonic Perspective 419
32. Chapter 20 St. Clement of Rome: Patron Saint of Cnut and the Dynasty of Denmark 431
33. Epilogue Cnut and the Potential Uses and Abuses of the Late Narrative Sources from Northern Scandinavia 459
34. Notes on Contributors 485
35. General Bibliography 487
36. Index 535