Note 933 — Chapter VI · THE DANISH KINGS IN ENGLAND.[818] 1017–1042.
Reading edition
Hist. El. ii. 27 (p. 505). Every one knows the lines, somewhat modernized as they must have been by the transcriber;
“Merie sungen ðe muneches binnen Ely,
Ða Cnut ching reu ðer by;
Roweð, cnihtes, noer ðe land,
And here we þes muneches sæng.”