Hardecanute


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Hardecanute

(ˈhɑːdɪkəˌnjuːt)
n
(Biography) same as Harthacanute
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Har•de•ca•nute

(ˌhɑr də kəˈnut, -ˈnyut)

n.
1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
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Emma The Twice-Crowned Queen: England In The Viking Age is the first full biography of Queen Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor and Hardecanute. The half-Danish sister of the Duke of Normandy and a descendant of Vikings, she would be Queen to two kings, Ethelred the Unready (who needed to ally with the Normans against Viking raiders) and later, the Danish Canute.
Emma the Twice-Crowned Queen

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