Some folks mis-remember the story of old King Canute. We’ve heard the (surely apocryphal) tale told of Canute The Great ordering the ocean’s waves to stop, and they, of course, didn’t obey his ...
Sveinsson Knut, Canute the Great, King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018 and King of Norway from 1030 until he died in 1035, was perhaps the most successful and effective of the early ...