Definition of Canute

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Ca·nute also Cnut or Knut

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) KEY , Known as "the Great." 994?-1035.

King of England (1016-1035), Denmark (1018-1035), and Norway (1028-1035) whose reign, at first brutal, was later marked by wisdom and temperance. He is the subject of many legends.

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