What is the legend of Canute the king?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Canute's father was Svein Forkbeard and his mother was daughter of Miesko the First of Poland. He was, therefore of mixed descent, half Danish and half Polish.

Answer 3

"Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey".

Answer 4

King Canute was famous for the lesson that he learnt from the natural waves of the ocean. He learnt a lesson that no other power is greater than that power of the almighty

Answer 5

he was born in 995

Answer 6

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