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Updated: June 26, 2025
This is the story the Norwegians tell of him, and if it is true it is no wonder that they feared and hated this Holder of the Heels of Horses. One spring there moved to the next "eighty" a family that made a great change in Canute's life.
But the tide was disobedient and steadily rose and rose, until the feet of the king were in the water. Turning to his courtiers, Canute said: "Learn how feeble is the power of earthly kings. None is worthy the name of king but He whom heaven and earth and sea obey." During Canute's reign England had peace and prosperity and the English people have ever held his memory dear.
There was no Edric now with Edmund to play into their hands, and they hesitated to engage a sixth time. At this moment an embassy was seen approaching from Edmund's army. Alfgar bore Edmund's personal defiance to Canute, offering to spare the effusion of blood, and settle their differences by single combat. Canute's brave and impetuous temper caught the suggestion at once.
She took the wet sheet she was wringing out and cracked him across the face with it, and ran giggling to the other side of the room. The blow stung his cheeks and the soapy water flew in his eyes, and he involuntarily began rubbing them with his hands. Lena giggled with delight at his discomfiture, and the wrath in Canute's face grew blacker than ever.
Do you think it troublesome to tell me why it was that you said, that day in the garden Now shake off that look, dearest; never will we speak of it again if it is not to your wish! Tell me what you meant by saying that you came into Canute's camp because you had too much faith in Rothgar, if you despise him since you despise him so?" Her eyes met his wonderingly.
Canute's furious curse cut him short. "To the Troll with your craft! Swords shall make us, or swords shall mar us. Use your blade, or I will sheathe it in you." Only the wind that took it from his lips heard the Tall One's answer; for at that moment his horse reared and sheered away before a spear-prick, and into the rift a handful of English rushed with shouts of triumph.
So it came about that Canute went over to take his alcohol with Ole oftener than he took it alone, After a while the report spread that he was going to marry Yensen's daughter, and the Norwegian girls began to tease Lena about the great bear she was going to keep house for. No one could quite see how the affair had come about, for Canute's tactics of courtship were somewhat peculiar.
From all sides laughter went up, but there was no time for more, for now a hunter one of the men who had brought news of the lair galloped up, dust-choked and breathless. "He has broken cover, King!" he gasped. "He is moving windward loose the hounds or you will miss him " Canute's horn was at his lips before the last broken phrase was out. "Forward!" he shouted with a blast.
He rose rapidly in influence and rank, and in the course of a few years, during which King Canute triumphed wholly over his Saxon enemies, and established his dominion over almost the whole realm, he was promoted to the rank of a king, and ruled, second only to Canute himself, over the kingdom of Wessex, one of the most important divisions of Canute's empire.
But all their fine-spun reasoning ran dead against a force which it could no more overcome than King Canute's words could halt the tide, the fact of American unity, as realized in the hearts of the American people. The mass of men live not by logic, but by primal instincts and passions.
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