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Noun: Canute the Great
  1. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035)
    - Cnut the Great, Canute, Cnut, Knut

Type of: King of England, King of Great Britain

Encyclopedia: Canute the Great