Anno autem sexto imperii magnifici regis Herici, congregatis uniuersis Dacię pontificibus cum multitudine cleri et terrę populo innumerabili, preciosas beati martyris reliquias ex saxeo sarcophago assumptas atque e cripta, ubi hactenus seruabantur, euectas, sollempnibus laudibus et ingenti leticia uniuersis comitantibus, ab eodem, quem prefati sumus, pontifice Hubaldo .xiii. kal mai. in eadem, quam prediximus, arca oculis peccatricibus inspeximus impositas, ad instar niuis candidas et serico decenti inuolutas, epitaphio simul imposito hoc modo composito:

Iam cęlo tutus summo cum rege Canutus

Martyr in aurata rex atque reconditur arca;

Qui, pro iusticię factis occisus inique,

Vt Christum uita sic morte fatetur in ipsa.

Traditus a proprio, sicut deus ipse, ministro

Et petiens potum telorum pertulit ictum;

Lancea necne latus, ut Christi, perforat eius,

Spiritibusque sacris moriens sociatur in astris.

Ossibus itaque sacris eisdemque apicibus decenter collocatis cęlestis thesauri gaza in preciosum loculum recluditur et omnibus eius patrocinia requirentibus mensę uitalis conuiuii spectanda superponitur. Dehinc quę ibidem uirtutum perficiuntur insignia, et presentibus perspicua, et opem exquirendo petentibus efficiuntur probabilia.

In the sixth year of the reign of the magnificent King Erik, all the bishops of Denmark were assembled together with a great multitude of clergy and an innumerable crowd of the people. The precious relics of the blessed martyr were taken from the stone sarcophagus and brought forth from the crypt where they had been kept until then. With solemn praises and great joy accompanying the procession, they were placed — on the third day before the Kalends of May — by the same Bishop Hubald whom we have mentioned, into the shrine already described. We ourselves beheld them with sinful eyes: white as snow, wrapped in fine silk, and accompanied by an epitaph composed in these words:

Now safe in heaven with the highest King,

Canute the martyr, once a king, is laid in a golden shrine.

Slain unjustly for the sake of justice,

As in life, so in death he confesses Christ.

Betrayed by his own servant, like God himself,

He suffered the blow of weapons while asking for drink.

His side is pierced by a lance, as was Christ’s,

And dying, he is joined to the holy spirits among the stars.

When the holy bones and inscriptions had been honorably set in place, the treasure of this heavenly wealth was enclosed within the precious shrine and set before all who seek his patronage as a vision of the banquet of life. Thereafter, the signs of miracles performed there became manifest to those present and proven to those who sought help in faith.