One Viking traded his axe for a crown and swapped pillaging for piety. This is the story of Cnut the Great, a Danish warrior who not only conquered England but eventually won the hearts of its people.

The Viking warrior who ascended to become King of England, Denmark, and Norway, is a figure shrouded in both history and legend.

More Viking Age silver has been discovered per square kilometer on the Isle of Man than in England, Ireland, Scotland, and ...

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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. In Viking times, a king had to be ...

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.

The Encomium Emmae Reginae is, as its title suggests, a political tract in praise of Queen Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy, wife of King Ethelred the Unready from 1002 to 1016, and wife ...

She married two kings - Æthelred the Unready (reigned 1002-1016) and Cnut the Great (reigned 1017-1035) and was the mother of two kings - King Harthacnut (reigned 1040-1042) and Edward the ...

One is believed to be that of Queen Emma who was married to kings of England, Ethelred and Cnut. A 3D reconstruction of Queen Emma's bones is part of the Kings and Scribes: The Birth of a Nation ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Autumn Statement and fiscal Budget on Wednesday, October 30, to much speculation - with inheritance tax among the rules being shaken up.

Cnut the Great, buried in the Old Minster, Winchester, has no historical record of receiving a Viking funeral. During the English Civil War, Roundhead soldiers scattered Cnut's bones, but after ...

Two Dorset villages are coming together this summer to mark a very special milestone, as Karen Bartlett of Portesham and Paul Sugg of ...