11世紀10年代後期,卡紐特將英格蘭分為四個伯爵國,其中韋塞克斯由他直接管轄,聯合Thorkell the Tall成為東安格利亞伯爵,埃里克保留諾森布里亞,Eadric Streona成為麥西亞伯爵。但是最後一位在一年內就被處決了。1018年,卡紐特恢復了韋塞克斯的兩個伯爵國,並在牛津召開了一場會議,最終決定以從前的英格蘭國王埃德加一世的法律進行統治。[24]
^Stenton, p. 399: "It is with the departure of the Danish fleet and the meeting at Oxford which followed it that Cnut's effective reign begins".
^Edward A. Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and its Results, Volume 1 Oxford: Clarendon, 1867, p. 404, note 1 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆).
^Karen Larsen, A History of Norway, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University, 1950, p. 104.
^Brita Malmer, "The 1954 Rone Hoard and Some Comments on Styles and Inscriptions of Certain Scandinavian Coins from the Early Eleventh Century", in Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500-1200: Essays in Honour of Marion Archibald, ed. Barrie Cook and Gareth Williams, Leiden: Brill, 2006, ISBN 90-04-14777-2, pp. 435-48, p. 443 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆).
^M.K. Lawson, Cnut: England's Viking King, Stroud: Tempus, 2004, ISBN 0-7524-2964-7, p. 103: "Cnut's power would seem in some sense to have extended into Wales".
^Lauring, p. 56: "the Danes in England very quickly became Christians".
^Stenton, pp. 396-97: "Swein . . . first appears in history as the leader of a heathen reaction . . . [but] behaved as at least a nominal Christian in later life. . . . Swein's tepid patronage of Christianity . . ."
^Stenton, p. 397: "the first viking leader to be admitted into the civilized fraternity of Christian kings".
^Jón Stefánsson, Denmark and Sweden: with Iceland and Finland, London: Unwin, 1916, OCLC181662877, p. 11 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆): "Cnut's ideal seems to have been an Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, of which England was to be the head and centre".
^Lauring, p. 56: "He was fond of England and regarded it as his principle (原文如此) kingdom. . . . Canute actually became an Englishman".
^Grueber and Keary, p. 6 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆): "Though England had been conquered by the Dane she was really the centre of his Danish empire".
^T.D. Kendrick, A History of the Vikings, New York: Scribner, 1930, repr. Mineola, New York: Dover, 2004, ISBN 0-486-43396-X, p. 125 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆): "Danish taxes were introduced, Danish laws imposed, and preference was everywhere given to Danish interests".
^Lauring, p. 57: "Now that a single king had assumed power after the pattern of Western Europe, the moment that king went away and omitted to leave strong men in charge behind him, or left a weak one, [the viking threat] became fatally weakened".