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noun - king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him
CNUT - Cnut the Great (Old English: Cnut se Micela, Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki c.995 12 November 1035), also known as Canutewhose father was Sweyn Forkbea...
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| king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035) |
| (d.1035), Danish king of England 101735, Denmark 101835, and Norway 102835, son of Sweyn I. He is remembered for demonstrating to fawning courtiers his inability to stop the rising tide this has become distorted in folklore to suggest that Canute really expected to turn back the tide. |
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| Cnut the Great (Old English: Cnut se Micela, Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki c.995 12 November 1035), also known as Canutewhose father was Sweyn Forkbeard (which gave him the patronym Sweynsson, Old Norse: Sveinsson)was King of Denmark, England and Norway; together often referred to as the North Sea Empire. Yet after the deaths of his heirs within a decade of his own, and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, this legacy was lost. He is popularly invoked in the context of the legend of King Canute and the tide, which usually misrepresents him as a deluded monarch believing he has supernatural powers, contrary to the original legend which portrays a wise king who rebuked his courtiers for their fawning behaviour. * As a Danish prince, Cnut won the throne of England in 1016 in the wake of centuries of Viking activity in northwestern Europe. His latter accession to the Danish throne in 1018 brought the crowns of England and Denmark together. Cnut sought to keep this power-base by uniting Danes |