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Tag: Cnut the Great

24 Apr 20174 Aug 2018 thijsporck Anglo-Saxon anecdotes, Cnut the Great, The Last Kingdom (BBC)

An Anglo-Saxon Anecdote: Cnut the Great and the walking dead

Find out how Cnut the Great changed his ways after he had seen the reanimated corpse of Edith of Wilton!

8 Jul 201612 Nov 2020 thijsporck Cnut the Great

How Cnut became Canute

How did the spelling for the name of Cnut the Great, Viking king of England from 1016 to 1035, change from to ? The Normans may be to blame...

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