Exercitu igitur ad propria reuerso religiosus princeps ueluti hactenus pietatis studiis inherere: diuini cultus reuerentiam extollere, cleri iura prouehere, dierum precipuorum legitimorumque ieiuniorum obseruantias uindicta proposita regali edicto, quemadmodum per uniuersum christianum orbem habentur, statuere, et omnia admodum deo contraria pro posse suo cohercere studere; seruos manu missos et proprii sudoris labore precio adquisito redemptos libertati publicę adiudicare, aduenasque et undecumque aduenientes nec alicui hactenus obnoxios incolarum pares iure et equitate decernere;

(quod, licet Danis inuisum et incommodum, deo, ut arbitramur, haud admodum contrarium) rebellium siue diuinorum seu legalium institutorum obstinaciam opprimere et regię ęquitatis uirga indomitas eorum ceruices edomare contendere.

After the army had returned to their homes, the devout prince continued, as before, to devote himself to works of piety. He sought to elevate reverence for divine worship, to strengthen the rights of the clergy, and — by royal decree backed with penalties — to enforce the observance of holy days and prescribed fasts, as they were practiced throughout the Christian world. He also strove, as far as he was able, to restrain everything openly opposed to God.

He ruled that freed slaves — those manumitted by their masters or redeemed at their own expense through the labor of their own hands — should be admitted to full legal freedom. He further decreed that foreigners and newcomers from any land, who until then had been subject to no one, should be regarded under law and justice as equals of the native inhabitants. This policy, though hateful and troublesome to the Danes, was, as we believe, not at all displeasing to God.

At the same time, he sought to suppress the stubborn resistance of those who rebelled against divine and lawful institutions and to tame their unruly necks with the rod of royal justice.