Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...
"The Last Kingdom" follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a young Saxon who is kidnapped and raised by Vikings before working for ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Canute passes away in the series finale ... His daughter was the wife of Edward the Confessor, King of England, and his son, ...