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Cnut

noun
1.
King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035).  Synonyms: Canute, Canute the Great, Knut.





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... was of more immediate consequence, Svend Fork-beard, whom we Englishmen call Sweyn—the renegade from that Christian Faith which had been forced on him by his German conqueror, the Emperor Otto II.—with his illustrious son Cnut, whom we call Canute, were just calling together all the most daring spirits of the Baltic coasts for the subjugation of England; and when that great feat was performed, the Scandinavian emigration was paralysed, probably, for a time by the fearful wars at home. While ...
— Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 • Charles Kingsley


Words linked to "Cnut" :   Knut, King of England, King of Great Britain, Canute


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