Born from blood and vengeance, Canute rose beyond his father's shadow to unite England, Denmark, and Norway under one ...

Let’s not forget that, once upon a time, Catholicism was quite active in those countries. The Church honors “three kings” as ...

Moments before King Canute died, Godwin (David Oakes) told Emma she should call Edward as the earls would turn against her and there could be a civil war as a result, but Emma had already called ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

King Canute can command the tides to recede all he likes, but the rising tide pays no attention to his royal wishes. But the perhaps apocryphal story of the actual ancient English king, ...

In the apocryphal tale, the 11th century English King Canute took his throne to the sea to try to roll back the tide. His purpose was to show his courtiers he couldn’t do it.

The white man in China last week was King Canute uneasy on his little throne, the foreign concessions, defying the tide of Chinese Nationalism not to engulf him. Throughout Europe disgruntled ...

Following the death of King Sweyn, Canute takes on the role of acting king over Denmark, Norway, England, and parts of Sweden. Driven by a vision of a peaceful and prosperous society, ...

It’s been well over a decade since we have seen any frost at all.