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.

She was later sent to Norway to rule for Canute, who was crowned king of England after the death of Ethelred in 1016, and was "most certainly a force to be reckoned with", said author and ...

She died in 1052. King Cnut the Great - King of England, Denmark and Norway. A Danish prince, he won the throne of England in 1016 in the wake of centuries of Viking activity in north-western Europe.

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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 ...

'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 ...

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.