
Æthelred II & Cnut the Great
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- Timothy Bolton, The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century
, Leiden: Brill, 2009.
- Alistair Campbell, ed., Encomium Emmae Reginae
, reprint, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 (1949).
- Matthew Firth, ‘Æthelred II “the Unready” and the Role of Kingship in Gunnlaugs saga Ormstungu‘, The Court Historian 25 (2020), 1-14.
- Matthew Firth, ‘London Under Danish Rule: Cnut’s Politics and Policies as a Demonstration of Power,’ Eras Journal, Volume 18, No. 1.
- Simon Keynes, The Diplomas of King Æthelred ‘the Unready’, 978 – 1016
, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
- Simon Keynes, ‘A Tale of Two Kings: Alfred the Great and Æthelred the Unready,’ Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 36 (1986): 195 – 217.
- Ryan Lavelle, ‘The Use and Abuse of Hostages in Later Anglo-Saxon England,’ Early Medieval Europe 14 (No. 3, 2006): 269 – 96.
- M. K. Lawson, Cnut: England’s Viking King
, 3rd edn, London: The History Press, 2011.
- Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards, trans. Knytlinga saga. Odense: Odense University Press, 1986.
- Alexander R. Rumble (ed.), The Reign of Cnut: King of England, Denmark and Norway, London: Leicester University Press, 1994.
- Peter Townend, ‘ Contextualizing the Knútsdrápur: skaldic praise-poetry at the court of Cnut.’ Anglo-Saxon England, 30 (2001): 145 – 179.
- Barbara Yorke, Wessex in the Early Middle Ages. London: Leicester University Press, 1995.