image sourceCC BY-SA Pity poor King Canute (Real name ‘Cnut’ pron: Kn-ootr). He went down in English history as the King who was so self-importantthat he sat in a ceremonial chair, on the beach, ordering the tide not to come in…
Only, according to many leading historians, he didn’t…
This intelligent eleventh century ruler of England, Norway and Denmark – the ‘North Sea Empire’, as it was known, had conquered the English by force of arms, but sought to rule with fairness. The gesture with the incoming tide was to illustrate that the only Will that really mattered was of a much higher nature than his own. He carried out the quoted royal act to illustrate his impotence in the face of God’s will, expressed through nature’s forces, to show that even Kings were subject to higher laws.
We could call this the art of ‘acceptance’, but there is…
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Thank you, Sue x
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A great share, Sue.
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I have a piece of dialogue in a book. It went, ‘I think you’ll find his name is Cnut.’ I tell you this I made damn sure I typed it very carefully. Sorry, just seeing this great post reminded me.
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Shey, I too was very careful when cross-posting this 😉
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Glad to hear…. xxxxxxx
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