Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

He was the first 'King of all England.' One story tells how King Cnut stood on the shore and commanded the sea to turn back. By getting his feet wet, he was showing people he had less power than God.

Cnut the Great, also known as Canute or Knut Sveinsson (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki; died 12 November 1035) was a Viking king of England, Denmark and Norway. His successes as a statesman ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

And thus, in the year 1016, did Canute King of the Danes give William Pusey ... ties to the old homestead through two Puseys who left England in 1682 on a boat carrying William Penn.