King Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over chess Finish:none Mr Speaker

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View of Charing Cross looking up the Strand with the statue of King Charles I on the right

Doris Day seen holding a bunch of flowers on her bicyle

Plate 282 from chapter 72 of Gleanings of natural history

King Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over chess Finish:none Mr SpeakerKing Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over chess, Roskilde, Denmanrk, 1026 (1913). King Canute (c985 1035) was Viking King of England, Norway and Denmark. Ulf Jarl Torgilsson (c998 1026) married King Canute's sister and was appointed by Canute as the Earl of Denmark. They argued over a game of chess and Canute had Ulf murdered. Illustration from The Northmen in Britain by Eleanor Means Hull, published 1913. Private collection.