So I was just reading about how Cnut the Great invaded England. However, I was never able to find (among what I read) exactly why he invaded England. So, AH.com, I come to you to ask: Did he do it just because he could? Or did something else motivate him? If the latter, what?
Why did Cnut the Great invade England?
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Cnut seems historically common, followed by Canute. In Old Norse, he's Knútr.
For what it's worth...
Well, the man had chutzpah--He was both a devout man and bigamist who got away with it. Seemed to be a successful attitude manifested in his conquests and governance.
He's described as a man who got what he wanted "at his leisure".
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Ironically enough, Cnut's expedition to England was code-named "Operation Sealion."
Better question would be, why did his father Sweyn Forkbeard invade England?
The answer is simple. It is not far, England seemed ripe for taking, it was a wealthy country, there were already a lot of danes there already and basically it seemed very doable.
So yeah, I think it´s pretty much just because they could.
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I think he meant they kept spelling it C U…
I was going to go with the joke: ‘That Danish king is such a…’
Something like that probably would motivate a Norse king to jump into the old longboat.
I think he meant they kept spelling it C U…
I was going to go with the joke: ‘That Danish king is such a…’
Something like that probably would motivate a Norse king to jump into the old longboat.
Yeah, I got that. I was just elevating the level of discourse.
And he got plenty...