Malcolm II of Scotland
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He was a son of Cinaed mac Maíl Choluim or King Kenneth II, and The Prophecy of Berchán says his mother was "a woman of Leinster". His mother may have been a daughter of a Uí Dúnlainge King of Leinste
Macbeth consulting the Vision of the Armed Head by Johann Heinrich Füssli
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Painting by Jacob de Wet II
Nineteenth century engraving of "King Malcolm's grave stone" (Glamis no. 2) at Glamis Castle
Cnut
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Cnut, also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. The three kingdoms united und
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…Strathclyde led by their king, Owain Foel (Owen the Bald). By this time Eiríkr Hákonarson had been appointed ealdorman in Northumbria by his brother-in-law Cnut the Great, with limited in practice to the south around York, the former kingdom of Deira. The twelfth-century tract known as De obsessione Dunelmi (The siege…
Contemporary drawing of King Cnut from the New Minster Liber Vitae, 1031
This runestone in Sweden (U 194), in memory of a Viking known as Alli, says he won Knútr's payment in England.
Medieval illumination depicting Kings Edmund Ironside (left) and Cnut (right), from the Chronica Majora written and illustrated by Matthew Paris
Silver penny of Cnut the Great with a quatrefoil on the obverse dating to the period c.1017–23