Sellar and yeatman6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He was born sometime in the decade before the year 1000 in Denmark, as the second son of its king, Sven ‘Forkbeard’, who had seized the country a decade or so before that from his own father, Harald ‘Bluetooth’ (after whom the wireless data exchange technology was named). ![]() The events of Cnut’s life are relatively straightforward to chronicle. ![]() In fact, this story is a modern misunderstanding of a medieval legend intended to demonstrate the opposite – the pious Cnut dictates the action in order to show his court that God will always be more powerful than any worldly king.īelow, Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of the most misunderstood of the Anglo-Saxon kings: Cnut, the powerful Danish warlord who conquered England and created a North Sea empire in the eleventh century. The leader of this invasion, Cnut the Great, is now chiefly remembered as the prideful figure who sat enthroned on a beach, commanding the tide to go back, and getting his feet wet. This was a half century before the Norman Conquest, and had just as great an impact on English society as the events of 1066, and yet is all but overlooked by the English- (and Danish-) speaking publicly today. One thousand years and a few months ago, Anglo-Saxon England was successfully invaded by Danes and their allies. ![]()
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