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Canute the Great, also known as Cnut, (died 12 November 1035) was a Viking king of England and Denmark, and Norway, and of some of Sweden.

Reign England: 1016 - 1035

Denmark: 1018 - 1035

Norway: 1028 - 1035.

Canute was a son of the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard, Canute's date of birth, like his mother's name, is unknown.

According to Legend, he ordered the waves to stop but he was actually proving to his courtiers that even kings could not control nature.

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