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Islandis coramentam, nisi Danorum scriptores mulato ducis
nomine istius callidi idem fere a majoribus traditum refer-
rent (1). Sed de his hactenus.
§. 4.
Inter exteras nationes praecipue sunt Germani et Angli,
quorum scripta septentrionis maximeque Daniae rcrum faciunt
mentionem.
Britanniam enim insulam ducentis annis amplius Nord-
manni atque ex his non paucissimi Dani bello prope assiduo
répetitisque navium incursibus infestabant ac postremo totam
sibi subjecerunt, ut per Svenonem illum a Sigvaldio, ut fer-
tur, captum et post ejus mortem hrevi tempore interjecto
iterum per Canutum magiuim ejusque filiúm quasi Danica pro-
vincia regeretur. Quam ob causam scriptoribus Brifannicis
sive Anglicis, domesticas res pertractantibus, ratio certe erat
Danorum ducenda, et hoslium sibi infestissimorum, quibuscum
cives sui tot tantaque bella terra narique gesserant, et domi-
norum, quorurn imperium prorsus afflicta respublica per ali-
quot tempus nequibat dclrectare. Ex his vero ad Jomsvi-
censium historiam Emmae encomiaste, qui nomine ineer-
tus ad laudem Canuti uxoris libellum composuit, nemo sane
est majoris momenti, propterea quod laudatae aequalis et for-
tasse familiaritate quadam conjunctus ullo sine dubio conjugis
ejus prosapiam optime novit. Quo igitur auctore ista ab Is-
landis vulgata opinio (2) refellitur, qua ab Haraldo Caeruli-
denli credunt Svenon'em • filium e pellice sublalum esse. Sed
(1) Saxonis Grammatici historia Danica, ed. P. E. Mueller.
I. p. 492. — Svenonis Agonis filii historia regum Danicorum:
Langebeck Scriptores rcr. Danic. P. I. p. 51.
(2) Jómsvikínga saga c. 18, fed. FornmannaSögur XI.
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