Inscription on a copper plaque (now lost) describing Canute IV's death (1086), placed on his sarcophagus in 1095 when the body was moved.
Anno incarnationis dominicędominicae . M . LXXX . VI . in ciuitate OthensyaOthensia . gloriosus rex et protomartyr Danorum Canutus . pro zelo christianęchristianae religionis et iustitięiustitiae operibus . in basilica sancti Albani martyris per eum paulo ante de Anglia in Daciam transuecti . post confessionem delictorum sacramento munitus dominici corporis . ante aram manibus solo tenus expansis in modum crucis latere lanceatus . VI . Idus JuliiIulii et . VI . feria . mortem pro Christo passus . requieuit in ipso.
In the year of the Lord’s incarnation 1086, in the city of Odense, the glorious king and protomartyr of the Danes, Canute, for his zeal for the Christian religion and the works of righteousness, in the basilica of St Alban the martyr, who had been conveyed by him from Anglia to Dacia a little earlier, after confession of sins, having been strengthened by the sacrament of the Lord’s body, having been speared in front of the altar with his hands stretched out to the ground in the manner of a cross, having suffered death for Christ on the 6th day before the Ides of July and on the 6th day of the week, he rested in [Christ] himself.
Occisi sunt etiam ibidem cum eo frater eius nomine et gratia martyrii Benedictus . ac . XVII . sui commilitones . uidelicet Asmundus . Blaca . Suuen . Aga . Thurgotus . Bernhardus . Gudmer . Eschilus . Tochi . Palni . Ati . Suna . Rosten . Milo . Radulfus . alter Thurgotus . Vilgryp . Qui omnes sicut dei gratia cum suo rege ac domino socii passionum martyrii fuerunt . ita consolationis et pręmiipraemii cum eo consortes merito erunt.
There were also killed with him in the same place his brother, by name and by the grace of martyrdom, Benedict ["Blessed"], and 17 comrades, namely: Asmund, Blaca, Sven, Aga, Thurgot, Bernhard, Gudmer, Eschil, Tochi, Palni, Ati, Suna, Rosten, Milo, Radulf, another Thurgot, Vilgryp. They all, as they were (by the grace of God) associates with their king and lord in the passions of martyrdom, so they will deservedly be partners with him in the consolation and prize.