He was the first 'King of all England.' One story tells how King Cnut stood on the shore and commanded the sea to turn back. By getting his feet wet, he was showing people he had less power than God.

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The nicknames comes from the fictional story of King Canute, the 11th century ruler of England, Denmark and Norway, who moved his throne to the seashore and commanded the tide to stop. After her ...

This prompted Cnut to return to England and ... a decisive victory and established himself as the first Norman King of England. The Last Kingdom's ending suggests that England enjoyed relative ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

The US government has a lot of power but even it may struggle to single-handedly reverse the clean energy shift sought by the ...

And thus, in the year 1016, did Canute King of the Danes give William Pusey ... ties to the old homestead through two Puseys who left England in 1682 on a boat carrying William Penn.

'Vikings: Valhala," a new original series to debut on Netflix later this year as a continuation of the 'Vikings' saga, announced cast members Tuesday. Cnut the Great, also known as Canute or Knut ...

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