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"A handsome bit of work," he said; "but I will not sell King Olaf for a dish." Finally two magnificent rings were offered. King Anund laughed when he saw them. "Keen and shrewd is King Canute," he remarked. "He knows I love golden toys, but he does not know that I love honor better. I have known King Olaf since he was a boy; he is my friend and my sister is his queen.
In the time of Canute he was reckoned first in degree of rank among the canine species, and no one under the degree of a gentleman, 'liberalis', or more properly, perhaps a 'freeholder', was allowed by the forest laws to keep them.
'I do not think it could have been beneath the dignity of a knight to row Canute, said Anne, 'considering that eight kings rowed Edgar the Peaceable. 'Other things prove that Knight meant a servant, in Saxon, said Elizabeth. 'I know it does sometimes, as in German now, said Anne; 'but the question is, when it acquired a meaning equivalent in dignity to the French Chevalier.
After the death of Canute, the Saxon's predilections in favour of the Saxon line became apparent; but it was either his policy or his principles always to defer to the popular will as expressed in the national council; and on the preference given by the Witan to Harold the son of Canute over the heirs of Ethelred, he yielded his own inclinations.
Not many years before the reign of the Confessor, the laws of the great Canute against witchcraft and charms, the worship of stones, fountains, runes by ash and elm, and the incantations that do homage to the dead, were obviously rather intended to apply to the recent Danish converts, than to the Anglo-Saxons, already subjugated for centuries, body and soul, to the domination of the Christian monks.
"Yes, God knows, they can say so," answered Canute; "we have been acting strangely enough during the last few days, it is time for us to retract. It has really gone far when we can dig up, each his own grandfather, to make way for a railroad; when in order that our loads may be carried more easily forward, we can violate the resting-place of the dead.
But Edmund died soon after, with a probable suspicion of being murdered by the instruments of his associate in the empire. Canute, on this event, assembled the states of the kingdom, by whom he was acknowledged King of all England. He was a prince truly great; for, having acquired the kingdom by his valor, he maintained and improved it by his justice and clemency.
CANUTE. The son of Aethelred, Edmund, surnamed Ironside, after the death of Swegen, kept up the war with his son Cnut, or Canute. After fighting six pitched battles with him, Edmund consented to divide the kingdom with him; but in the same year the English king died. He had professed Christianity, and unexpectedly proved himself, after his accession, to be a good ruler.
Appleford." Mary Ann no doubt had other virtues, but they are not recorded: this is sufficient for a servant. An hour's ride on the velvet cushions of a railway carriage brings us, with our Paultons friends, the Boyce boys, to Southampton, which was an old town when King Canute was young.
It was a different state of affairs now from that far-off time of Canute and the vikings, when the Danes overran England and a Dane filled its throne. The tide had long turned and Denmark was an almost helpless victim in the hands of the great maritime island, which sought to control the politics of the whole continent during the terrible struggle with Napoleon.
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