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 ...

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.

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 ...

Canute passes away in the series finale ... His daughter was the wife of Edward the Confessor, King of England, and his son, ...