Skip to content
Thijs Porck

Thijs Porck

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Books
  • Publications and Open Access
  • Conferences
  • Teaching
  • Thesis supervision
  • Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe (EMERGENCE – ERC project)
  • In the media
  • Outreach

Tag: Onomastics

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...

Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Thijs Porck
      • Join 520 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Thijs Porck
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...