Knute takes the whole kingdom and divides it into four
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Ingram/Giles translation) records under 1017 that King Knute took to the whole government of England and divided it into four parts: Wessex for himself, East-Anglia for Thurkyll, Mercia for Edric and Northumbria for Eric.
Limits: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a monastic chronicle, used here through a 19th-century English translation (this e-text gives J. Ingram's translation, with excerpts of J. A. Giles's translation collated in by its preparer; the Old English was not checked); this records what this translation of the Chronicle says, not independent confirmation. A passage from J. A. Giles's translation, collated into this e-text in double parentheses under the same year, says only that Canute was chosen king.
- Quoted from a published English translation, not from the original-language text.
Source: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (English translation by J. Ingram, with J. A. Giles)Read the source