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Cnut

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Cnut  (k-nt, -nyt)
See Canute.

Cnut [kəˈnjuːt]
n
(Biographies) a variant spelling of Canute
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Noun1.Cnut - 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)


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9789004166707 The empire of Cnut the Great; conquest and the consolidation of power in Northern Europe in the early eleventh century.
King Cnut (Canute) tried to hold back the tide to prove he was all-powerful Eleventh-century King Cnut is regularly held up as a ridiculous figure who tried foolishly to stave off the inevitable.
 
 
 
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