Canute took weeks to arrive at Struer where the fleet had assembled, but he found only the Norwegians still there.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

According to Viking lore, Canute the Great used 1, 400 in Norway in 1028, and William the Conqueror used about 600 for the invasion of Britain in 1066 in the post Viking period.

Sweyn Estridsen's son, Canute IV, raided England for the last time in 1085.

* Contemporary charters in Latin used a number of additional styles for the Danish king Cnut ( Canute the Great, with Norway as his third realm ; 23 April 1016-12 November 1035 in Britain ) having rex Anglorum in the core plus various other titles, including rex Anglorum totiusque Brittannice orbis gubernator et rector i. e. ' king of the Angli and of all Britain governor and rector ' ( the last two in the generic sense ' ruler ')

It is assumed that the last eight books were written first, as Saxo drew heavily on Absalon's testament for evidence of the age of Saint Canute and Valdemar I and Archbishop Absalon died in 1202, before the work was completed.

" For years, it was thought to be a link with Canute, but it is now thought likely that the " Nott " section of the name is derived from the Saxon personal name Cnotta, with the " ing " part generally accepted as coming from the Saxon for a group or settlement of people.

Canute brought about the wrath of some of his chiefs when he hanged Jarl Egil Ragnarsen, his hand-picked governor of Bornholm, and most of his household for piracy.

Canute in the meantime travelled from assembly to assembly in southern Jutland ordering his people to pay tithes, a tenth of all their produce for the church.

The tithes and new tax were not well received, and when his brother, Olaf, protested, Canute had him arrested and exiled to Flanders in chains, believing that Olaf was responsible for the growing unrest.

It took so long to pacify the south that Canute was unable to come north for weeks.

When the peasants and their leaders realized the king was at Odense, they raced to the king's farm, but Canute and Benedict fled into the little timber church of St. Alban's Priory near the river for sanctuary.

In the Laws of Canute an unknown man who was killed was presumed to be a Dane, and the vill / tithing was compelled to pay 40 marks for his death.

In addition, a fine called the " murdrum ", originally introduced to English law by the Danes under Canute, was revived, imposing on villages a high ( 46 mark /~£ 31 ) fine for the secret killing of a Norman ( or an unknown person who was, under the murdrum laws, presumed to be Norman unless proven otherwise ).

Canute had gathered the land largely as pay for the pardon of lawless subjects.

Under the reign of Olaf, Denmark suffered from crop failure, which was seen as divine retribution for the sacrilege killing of Canute.

The reign of Canute has been interpreted differently through the times ; from a violent king who tyrannized his subjects, to a strict but fair ruler who devotedly supported the Roman Catholic Church and fought for justice without regard to his own person.

King Eric I of Denmark went to Rome on a pilgrimage and secured two important concessions from Pope Pascal II: sainthood for his murdered brother, Saint Canute IV and the creation of an archdiocese that included all of Scandinavia.

In the early 11th century, King Canute ( died 1035 ) ruled Denmark and England as a single realm for almost 20 years.

Tilsted stayed loyal to Sweyn Forkbeard and died in 1013, after having sailed up the rivers Humber and Trent with Sweyn Forkbeard and his son Knut ( Canute ), for Sweyn to be accepted as king of the Danelaw.

These campaigns were mounted by Valdemar's son and successor for the Danish throne, Canute VI of Denmark.

After killing Charles Sverkerson in 1167, Canute, who had just returned home after ten years in exile, started fighting for power against Sverker the Elder's sons Kol and Boleslaw Sverkerson.

In 1131, Magnus had his cousin and potential rival for the Danish throne, Canute Lavard, murdered, in order to position himself as heir presumptive to his father King Niels.

Frankpledge can be traced back to King Canute II the Great of Denmark and England ( d. 1035 ), who declared that every man, serf or free, must be part of a hundred, that could put up a surety in money for his good behaviour.

Once the assembly had shouted their approval, Canute stood up and spoke to those assembled, both peasant and nobles: " You called my brother Harald the Whet-stone, but you will learn that I will be hard as granite!

Canute blamed the wives of several leading chiefs from Jutland of causing bad weather and ordered his officers to collect such heavy fines from their families that it would have bankrupted all of them.

Canute and his brothers, Benedict and Erik, and their housecarls went to the king's farm outside Odense.

Among the minor works of Gough are An Account of the Bedford Missal ( in manuscript ); A Catalogue of the Coins of Canute, King of Denmark ( 1777 ); History of Pleshey in Essex ( 1803 ); An Account of the Coins of the Seleucidae, Kings of Syria ( 1804 ); and " History of the Society of Antiquaries of London ," prefixed to their Archaeologia.

The leding was eventually dispersed and the peasants tended to their harvests, but Canute intended to reassemble within a year.

The rebels stormed into the church and slew Canute, along with his brother Benedict and seventeen of their followers, before the altar.

As a Thinglid, he was with King Valdemar I and later with King Canute VI during their numerous war expeditions, of which he mentions a few personal details in Historia brevis regum Dacie.

* Lord Canute Canuteson Porse, their son ( 1330 – 1350 with his brother and mother )

* Gesta Cnutonis regis mentions in one short passage that Canute and his brother went to the land of the Slavs, and brought back their mother, who was living there.

One day when king Olaf II of Norway was fleeing king Canute the Great, he came by their promontory.

It is possible that Saxo then enlarged it with Books 15 and 16, telling the story of King Valdemar I's last years and King Canute VI's first years.

An epilogue to the play then tells of Ymma's reign alongside Ethelbert and her marriage to Canute.

After several attempts to break in and then bloody hand to hand fighting in the church, Benedict was cut down and Canute struck in the head by a large stone and then speared from the front.

** Gertrude of Bavaria ( 1155 – 1197 ), married first Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia, and then King Canute VI of Denmark

Local tradition says that King Canute forded the River Lily, which was said to be dangerous then, though other reports say it was the Birkin Brook at or near Booth Mill .< ref >

From then on, Orm and Toke live in peace and plenty as good neighbours, and Svarthöfde Ormsson becomes a famous Viking, fighting for Canute the Great.

Backed by Canute the Great, Erling's allies went on to drive Olav out of the country, and then finally kill him at the Battle of Stiklestad in 1030.