Hardicanute

Gray wrote to Walpole in 1760, "I have been often told that the poem called 'Hardicanute' (which I always admired and still admire) was the work of somebody that lived a few years ago.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

He had been invited over from Normandy by Hardicanute, in the course of his short reign of two years, and had been handsomely treated at court.

A Child's History of England 2007

Hardicanute, instead of assisting him, as he expected, opposed him so strongly with all her influence that he was very soon glad to get safely back.

A Child's History of England 2007

Hardicanute was then at Bruges, in Flanders, plotting, with his mother

A Child's History of England 2007

South of England, headed by a nobleman with great possessions, called the powerful EARL GODWIN (who is said to have been originally a poor cow-boy), opposed this, and desired to have, instead, either Hardicanute, or one of the two exiled Princes who were over in Normandy.

A Child's History of England 2007

Thames, with London for his capital city, and that Hardicanute should have all the south.

A Child's History of England 2007

The quarrel was so arranged; and, as Hardicanute was in

A Child's History of England 2007

The soul of Hardicanute hath taken possession of him, and he hath no pleasure save to fill, to swill, and to call for more. —

Ivanhoe 2004

At the coronation of HAROLD I., who in fact usurped the throne in the absence of the legitimate claimant, Hardicanute, Egilnoth, archbishop of

Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip

_A festival celebrated in England antiently in memory of the sudden death of King Hardicanute A.C. 1042 and the downfall of the Danes_.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton