The Greatest Viking King | Canute The Great | Vikings Valhalla 

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Here from Vinland saga, I’m so glad that it introduced me to this wonderful part of history

I didn't know about him till Vinland Saga. This video really helped to recognise how amazing of a leader he is.

In my opinion Canute is the Viking version of Alexander the Great. They both had fathers who were great warriors with grand ambitions and struggled with getting out from under their father's shadows, they both became kings at a young age, they both had far grander ambitions than their fathers, they both heavily relied on their faith and used it to their advantage, they both died far too young and once they died their empires died with them, plus many more similarities.

Can't wait for vinland saga Canute is going to be 🔥

The most challenging part of viking history is keeping track of who's who. They've basically all called the same three names 😂

One of the underrated Kings in British and world history.

Cnute the Great. King of Norway, England, Denmark and Sweden. A mighty warrior. Emperor of Northwestern Europe.

Damn. I first knew King Canute from Vikings: Valhalla. The first time I saw him from the show I knew he was more than his appearance. And I really liked the way he was with Queen Emma.

Knut was the son of polish princess Świętosława. Among his allies was Bolesław Chrobry, the king of Poland. Świętosława had been sent away by king Swen Forkbeard. Knut and Harald fetched their mother back to Denmark after the death of their father.

Good chunk of Polish blood. Few hundreds polish man were fighting in his army.

This story is better than "Vikings: Valhalla"

Vinland Saga brought me here

In my hometown of Roskilde in Denmark, we have a major road named after Canute. And also one named after Queen Emma.

Loved the shows portrayal of his character. Glad to see a king that everyone can stand behind and is open to the opinions of others, unless they threaten his.

What a legend, Canut was! What such dangerous time to live in England was at the time of the Viking invations. A great video and a brave man indeed.

Always enjoyed this story of King Canute - you covered it really well - Amazing story -

First: Congrats on your great Sponsor! I love Vikings history so much! And the way you narrated them is wonderful! The images are amazing! Thank you Ollie

I’m here from Brief Case. How you managed to put the brilliant history of Knut in 20 minutes is amazing. Subbed!

I have heard of Canut. You gave a really good telling of his life.

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I ponder the extent of his accomplishments had he lived longer. To die in his prime after such accomplishment is staggering in its scope, yet was achieved in a relatively short period of time.

Excellent job covering the story of Canute, I thoroughly enjoyed the narration and visuals. Canute and his men would be proud! Liked and subscribed! 👑

Vinland saga season 2 needs to hurry. Love the vid man ! Look forward to them all.

Keep on going. This is the few decent channel on RU-vid that tell real history with interesting enthusiasm.

Great video as always! It would be fun if you did Harald Fairhair. Pagan hero king, with lots of myths about him. Including how he was raised by jotnar, and how he married a witch.

Yet another great video! Would love you to do a dedicated video on the Jomsvikings

Amazing video so informative TY

A very riveting story well presented I learned a great deal thank you

Really enjoying this channel, Thanks.

Thank you do much for introducing me to curiosity steam. Using your link I be have found so many documentaries I can't wait to watch. Thank you. For your channel and great content

Oooh I know little of Vikings. I am happy to learn. Thanks for the lesson. Happy Valentine’s ❣️

Keep these coming!

Insightful video!

Thanks for all those great history lessons.

Brilliant and educating video. What great names some of these Vikings had,

I love your videos, your voice and short stories are addicting. Thank you for your hard work

Canute was also grandson of the first ruler of Poland Mieszko I and his Czech wife Dobrawa

one of the best channels out there! need the ominous myuu background song back tho! love

Very well explained, love your videos

Excellent, also your voice is perfect for this!

Excellent video, I have subscribed! 👍

I really enjoyed this.

Wonderful video on another Viking video!

Fantastic History lesson. Proud that there are still people out there who refuse to let Humanities History fade into oblivion. Wonderful job with this and your other work, HIstory Profiles...! HOO-YAH & God Bless

Brilliant video, Canute really was the greatest.

Och now a lot of Vikings thank you i love everything about Vikings ❤🖤👍😁‼

I love your videos. Thank you :)

Congrats on the promo :D

Please do Ethelflaed The Lady of Mercia, Edmund Ironside, Siward Earl of Northumbria.

Greetings Ollie. My favourite time in history. Great narration. Pictures are amazing.

Love Viking history!

After watching vikings valhalla, i wanted to learn more about canute. Great info

what about his Polish mum? Sigrida Storrada? She was of Polish Piast Dynasty. A very strong and interesting woman. His forces were supplemented in his expedition to England by 3000 warriors from Poland sent by his grandfather. Chances are that he inerited much of Storrada resolve and pragmatic brutality. And Jomsborg Vikings were at least 50% Slavonic soldiers. this close relationship with Vikings may explain why Polish state was never really raided by them unlike other countries. There are some other historical clues like cemeteries where side by side were laid Polanie, Vikings and Pontic warriors. And finally the last Viking capital was in Darłowo ruled over by Eric from the Gryfit dynasty a branch of polish Piast ruling dynasty. so there father Sven but mothers are as important. Especially Polish mothers

Loved It! One Of My Favorite Stories, Thus Far. It Was Quite An Amazing Story - Told Of An Remarkable Man. Love How You Go Into Details (Which Makes The Story More Vivid And Interesting).

I love this. Great history lesson. Thank you.

Vikings Valhalla from Netflix brought me here . Thank you for this articulate true story.

Love it!

I love Viking history! ❤

It seems such a sad memorial to Canute the Great which is a small casket, set up on a balcony, along with the caskets of other Kings, in Winchester Cathedral. We don't even know if his bones reside in this casket, having been molested by Parliamentary soldiers in the Civil war, who scattered the bones contained within within all the caskets and (I believe) even played cricket with them, before they were later re-collected and arbitrarily placed within the caskets to be placed on the balcony. But at least this is one such place (the other perhaps being Bosham Church where Harold II prayed) where one feels one can almost touch history and sense something of the people around whom these histories revolve.

The most underrated king in the early medieval history of northern europe

Thank you for the history on ower ancestors 🫡💪

I found out about your channel through Briefcase. Im glad i did . You do a great job.

Thank you

Needed this for Vikings Valhalla. Even tho this story of Canute will probably change in the serie. Thanks for the vid.

The history that I studied tells me that Canute was the son of King Sweyn of Denmark. He ordered his son to lay siege to London held by Thorkell the Tall to prove he was a man but his attendant Ragnar babied him so much that he acted cowardly and because of that was easily captured by thorkell. Meanwhile a viking named askeladd and his band of warriors strived to change their destinies thus saving the Prince in Marlborough, however, Thorkell pursued them all the way to Wales. My study of this chronicle stops here and I will update you all as soon as I have finished this intriguing part of british-carolingian history😊

I've come here after watching the first few episodes of "Vikings Valhalla". A couple of points. One is that, obviously, the series has to cut corners but it gives a good idea of the true history. Second, and more importantly, it has inspired me to learn more more about the true history - not a bad feat for a TV show.

I didn't know that Thorkell had a role in Cnut's upbringing? It was my understanding there was some kind of hostility between Sweyn and Thorkell, which apparently explains why the two initially fought against the other until Sweyn dies and Thorkell approaches Cnut in person.

Thank you.

excellent video on a viking king I only had minor knowledge on

I read a Book called Queen Emma and the Vikings, by Harriet O'Brien. Wonderful book.

Very stylish looking Canute there.

awesome vid Olly loved it anything with vikings is awesome

Very enjoyable

Good history profile I didn’t know much about his background

I could watch this video every day! I almost have lol

I have the DNA passed down from King Knut in my blood. This video is well done, connecting the kings, countries and battles during that era. I am also a Christian who has always put God in the center of my life. Although no longer carrying any weight politically in Scandinavia, God has most certainly blessed our family through the centuries.

Hell yeah! 💪🏻

Cnut the Great landed 45 minutes from my house in Essex near Canewdon, the hill he camped on the night before the battle now a Church overlooks, rebuilt by King Henry V, the village became famous for Witchcraft, its interesting as you can follow the river crouch as it snakes inland Cnuts men would chase injured Longshanks up the crouch another battle took place at Battlesbridge, look on my site I visited the sites

Interesting i learned about him from vinland saga

Wow now he was a true leader of men and King what a legacy what a legend what a man who also was King 👑 of a great North empire the only one that I can think of ever

I wonder if this Canute is the same of the one in the anime Vinland Saga? Just curious, awesome video.

His name was Knut, but I know it was and is still hard to pronounce if you don't come from Scandinavia.

Wow that was brilliant thanks for that great story. I always thought Ragnar was the greatest Viking.. But canute was amazing Viking the should make a film about Canute the great

Wasn't it King Canute, or Knud, who had a sister named Liden Kirsten who fell in love with a knight named Buris, but Canute/Knud did not aprove of the connection so he let Kirsten dance herself to death. And he got Buris blinded and prisoned him near the place where Kirsten was buried, and gave a chain on just long enough that he could visit Liden Kirstens grave. If the story is true Liden Kirsten would have been 30 years older than Buris. But Canute had a sister Estrid, who married Ulf Jarl. or Eorl, who was killed in a church on command of Canute. They were parents to the famous danish King, Svend Estridsen. My history book says the viking age ended with King Canute's son Harde Knud, who died at Tove Prudes wedding after proposing a toast.

This is how you spell his name Knut.

I always have to listen again as I can't get the names and dates embedded in my head. I Did enjoy the SWOOSH noise of the battle axe, is this wrong of me? 🤔 🤣

I think Knut is the right way to spell it , at least here in old Scandinavia , and we are right !

Why I really enjoy my name and proud of my rich history

This is enlightenment given to me in the beginning, because I'd never heard or learned before about King Cnut. Certainly enters into the Visigothic topic. Avila, Spain, location of the film "El Cid" about Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, (where I had a house in the mountains), and the last Marquesa who owned the land where everything is located including the town of Navas de Marques, I think her name was Eulalia, and that's definitely a Visigothic Germanic Scandinavian female and male name, Eulalio or Eulalia, involved in the wars of Reconquest. Visigoths either stayed mingled and had families and businesses, or back up North. Meaning that NEVER have been lost Visigoths, in the European countries melting pot, as converted Muslims and Christians. See? Here explained how this king still had to deal with paganism in his people, no matter if he was a Christian. His grandfather converted to Christianity. Teutonic knights Templar, and still seem to always be depicted as still clinging to pagan rituals, that added to their demise, abolishment, lack of funding, and I suppose finished off through The Holy Inquisition, which was anywhere considered of advancing European civilization, not just in Spain. Cleansing of Barbaric paganism was part of why. That's not pointed out.

and not long after Canute's death the descendants of another Viking, Rollo, would come in and totally change England

He will always be C-nut in my heart.

My ancestor

One of the most famous & greatest dane of All time 🇩🇰🇩🇰

I recently found out that my father's family line is Knusden, a Danish line that dates back to who I believe is Canute. I am trying to find out more about this ancestry. I have managed to get back to 1600 where the Knudsen's are all full-blood Danish. Crazily I also have Norwegien DNA. Ancestry recently updated my DNA saying that I have a Russian line who I believe may be connected to the "Rus" - a viking group that moved into Russia. I really would like to know if my Knudsen line is connected to Canute!?!

Norway is a good fighting fource to reconed with even today

What about his Mom . Polish princess she was sister of Polish King Boleslaw. His Mom Swientoslawa. Good subject for next clip.

Spelling dependent upon original things is vastly important! Confusion would ensue assuredly so!

Shouldn't we not show images with horned helms as none have ever been found with viking artifacts. Most historians say it's nonsense.

Knute was a greater king of England than Alfred. He reformed the government and taxation into the powerhouse England became, that is, he founded the platform from which the British Empire was launched and flourshied centuries after his time. He formalised the existing patchy and rather ad-hoc anglo-saxon systems and standardised them thoughout the land. For example, shires were standarised by Knute....a shire consited of 1000 households governed by an elected Ealdorman instead of an appointed or herediatry Eorl (Earl). A Household was a family unit consiting of up to half a dozen or so mostly related families and was the basic political, economic and martial unit in anglo-saxon society, both prior and subsequent to Knute. A shire was divided into 10 Hundreds governed by an appointed Reeve (appointed by the Ealdorman or King), each made up of 10 Tons/Tuns, each consiting of 10 Households who collectively worked their lands and were governed by a moot (meeting) of the household heads. Hundredds and shires also had their own Moots with represenatatives drawn from 'the good men of the shire'. This made tax collection, adminsitering secular and eclesiastical law and raising armies much more efficient and thereby much more effective...by 1066 England was the wealthiest crown in Europe because of his reforms. The Normans brought in the manorial system to replace households as the basic martial unit (manors were bigger than households though), but retained the hundreds (they called Honors) and shires (they called Counties) for legal and taxation purposes, infact shires/counties are still the basic govermental and eclesiatical units in England today, and it's all down to one man - Kunte the Great!