Harthacanute

British  

/ ˈhɑːθəkəˌnjuːt /

noun

1. ?1019–42, king of Denmark (1035–42) and of England (1040–42); son of Canute

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Example Sentences

Gunhild followed in 1038; Harold in 1040; and Harthacanute in 1042.

From Project Gutenberg

At this meeting, as the Chronicle has it, the northern magnates led by Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and supported by the Danes in London, "chose Harold to hold all England, him and his brother Harthacanute who was in Denmark."

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Harthacanute died at Lambeth, only a few miles from London.

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The prospective bride was probably in Wendland with her kinsmen at the time; at any rate she was not on the ship that went down in the Swelchie of Pentland Firth; for a few years later we find Gunhild the widow of one whose history is closely associated with Jomburg, Harold, the son of Thurkil the Tall, the Harold who in 1030 was administering Danish affairs in the name of Harthacanute.

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Canute's policy is revealed in the act at Nidaros, discussed in an earlier chapter, when in the presence of lords from all his realms, he led Harthacanute to the high seat and thus proclaimed him a king of his own rank.

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