| Autor: |
Moon, Nicolas, Vohra, Pragya |
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Scandinavica: An International Journal of Scandinavian Studies; 2018, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p67-88, 22p |
| Abstrakt: |
King Knut, or Knutr inn riki, is remembered in medieval English and Norse traditions in interesting and occasionally contradictory ways: as a conqueror of England, and the 'king of all England'; a descendent of the Danish Skjpldungr dynasty, but also of Anglo-Saxon royalty; so much so that Norman Cantor dubbed him 'the most effective king in Anglo-Saxon history'. The ambiguity in the representations and commemorations of Knut in contemporary sources is mirrored in his later afterlife in early modern England. In Anthony Brewer's play, The Love-sick King, Knut appears as both conqueror and English king. Elizabethan and Jacobean engagements with the history of early Britain relate the ambiguity of Knut's representation to contemporary anxieties regarding English nationhood and royalty after the death of Elizabeth I. This article is a first discussion of ongoing research into the ambiguities in the representations of 'England's Viking king' and the forms of his commemoration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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