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Answer: Canute's nobles are supposed to have told him he was all-powerful. To prove that they were just "sucking up", Canute sat on the edge of the beach whilst the tide was coming in and ordered it to stop- which it didn't, of course. So with that he proved that God was more powerful then any mortal, and asked them to tell him the truth, not what he wanted to know.

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