Aelnoth (Ailnoth), Gesta et Passio

[Gesta Swenomagni Regis et filiorum eius et passio gloriosissimi Canuti Regis et martyris = The Deeds of King Sven the Great (Sven Estridsen) and His Sons, and the Passion of the Most Glorious Canute (IV), King and Martyr]

This is more or less a document from Denmark: Although Aelnoth was from Canterbury in England, he had lived in Denmark for 24 years when he wrote this work.

• Latin text ed. Gertz, Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (1908-12), 1: 77-136 [Royal Library, Copenhagen][HathiTrust]
• Draft / incomplete English translation by Laura Amalasunta Gazzoli no longer accessible
• Basic scholarly treatment: J. Isager and A. Conti, "Ailnothus," Medieval Nordic Literature in Latin, ed. by S. Borgehammar et al. (2012)
• M. H. Gelting, "Two Early Twelfth-Century Views of Denmark’s Christian Past: Ailnoth and the Anonymous of Roskilde," in I. H. Garipzanov (ed.), Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery: Early History Writing in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe (c.1070–1200), pp. 33-55. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.