Invocation and Royal Declaration
The Lund Gift Charter
In nomine sanctę et indiuidue Trinitatis. patris et filii et spiritus sancti.
Notum omnibus in Christo fidelibus esse cupimus. qualiter ego Cnvto. quartus Magni regis filius. post susceptum paterne hereditatis regnum. ęcclesiam sancti Lavrentii. quę sita est Lundę. licet nondum perfectam dotaui. ut illius agni qui tollit peccata mundi sit perpetim. sponsa. sancta sancti. immaculata immaculati. digna digni.
In the name of the Holy and Undivided Trinity:
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
We wish it to be known to all the faithful in Christ that I, Canute IV, son of King Sweyn, having inherited the kingdom from my father, have endowed the Church of Saint Lawrence at Lund—although it has not yet been completed—so that it may forever be the bride of the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world:
Holy for the Holy One,
spotless for the Spotless One,
worthy of the Worthy One.