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Canute, (c.995-1035) King of the English, Danes, and Norwegians. Canute was master of a powerful northern empire, which fell apart at his death at Shaftesbury, Nov. 12, 1035.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 578. (Canute rebuking his courtiers.)
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