King Cnut was a Dane who ruled England and Denmark at the start of the 11th century.
His is also the name I've chosen for my new Flickr account. Flickr is a service for hosting photographs. I've just uploaded some photos there of Heidi and the boys. I'm posting them there because it is fast and easy and they offer several sizes all at one upload. They do the resizing automatically.
Check 'em out if you want: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingcnut/
2 comments :
Are you sure King Cnut spelled his name like that? A more "Scandihoovian" spelling is, "Knute".
Anyway, I think I like the idea of going to flickr.com to take a peek at your pictures.
I'll let you know for sure when I get back.
GG
Perhaps the Cnut spelling is an artifact of his chroniclers being Anglo-Saxon?
The book I recently finished, and from which I took the spelling, is called Emma and The Vikings. The author said the most consistent source of information from the era is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. And perhaps another important source was a history that Queen Emma commissioned, but that also would have been an Anglo-Saxon monk that did the writing. A far more substantial name-change affected the queen, a Norman, named Emma, by birth, but renamed Aelfgifu by the Anglo-Saxons when she married King Aethelred. Aelfgifu means, roughly 'gracious gift'.
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