cnut

William the Conqueror is your great(great, etc) grandfather, as is Cnut the Great, Kenneth MacAlpin, and Rhodri the Great, etc etc.

Joseph-Marie Jacquard wants to know (and King Cnut has metaphorical clogs to sell to the Luddites).

After the tide refused to follow his orders and stop rising, Cnut hung up his crown.

I always downvote them but I feel like King Cnut trying to stop the tide.

King Cnut demonstrated it with the tide.

Surely the alternative would have been that land being owned the Anglo-Danish elite installed by Cnut a few decades earlier, or perhaps a newly installed Norwegian elite had Harold lost at Stamford Bridge.

And like many English words Hacker has several meanings and trying to go back to the 60's usage at MIT is I afraid a pointless exercise just Like King Cnut trying to hold back the tide.

If time travel is invented in your lifetime, you should go back a thousand years or so and have a talk with King Cnut — he of the legend of showing his courtiers just how much control he had over the tide [0] — about your views on immigration.

King Cnut (Canute) the Great then ruled over Denmark, Norway, parts of Sweden, and the vast majority of England, from 1016 to 1035, followed by his sons, and it was first the death of the second of his sons to hold the English crown that brought England, very temporarily, back under English rule in 1066.

"Stopping the tide coming in" is usually a reference to the English king Cnut (or 'Canute') who legendarily made his courtiers carry him to the sea: > When he was at the height of his ascendancy, he ordered his chair to be placed on the sea-shore as the tide was coming in.

England was fully conquered by a Danish king later (Cnut).

I know what it's a reference to, I'm calling skill issue on King Cnut.