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Про Кнуда Великого существует легенда как он пытался стать повелителем волн, поставив свой трон на берегу моря, но неудачно, волны не стали его слушаться, замочив его ноги и трон. После этого он повесил свою корону на распятие и не носил её больше. Поздние враждебные хроникёры объявили это проявлением безумия. Интересно, не тот же ли это сюжет, что и про Ксеркса, приказавшего высечь непослушное ему море или реку, что является, согласно НХ-реконструкции, отражением постройки Грозным Свияжска и взятия Казани 1552 года? Другое отражение этого сюжета - постройка Калигулой моста через залив, т.е. также попытка укрощения моря. В следующем 1553 году первый царь эпохи Грозного отходит от дел, став блаженным царём, т.е. также перестаёт носить корону.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute_the_Great#Ruler_of_the_waves Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler, tells how Cnut set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes. Yet "continuing to rise as usual dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal person. Then the king leapt backwards, saying: 'Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws.' He then hung his gold crown on a crucifix, and never wore it again "to the honour of God the almighty King".<95> This incident is usually misrepresented by popular commentators and politicians as an example of Cnut's arrogance.<96>
http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/TheAnglo-Saxonkings/CanutetheGreat.aspx Canute 'The Great' (r. 1016-1035) ..It was allegedly Christian humility which made him reject his courtiers' flattery by demonstrating that even he could not stop the waves; later hostile chroniclers were to claim it showed madness.
...there are earlier Celtic parallels in stories of men who commanded the tides, namely Saint Illtud, Maelgwn, king of Gwynedd, and Tuirbe, of Tuirbe's Strand, in Brittany.<97>
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Майлгун_ап_Кадваллон (валл. Maelgwn ap Cadwallon, лат. Maglocunus, англ. Malcolm; ок. 480—547), также известный как Майлгун Гвинед или Майлгун Высокий (валл. Hir) — король Гвинеда примерно с 520 года. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maelgwn_Gwynedd ...The Brythonic maglo- (from the proposed Proto-Celtic *magalos)
- что за Майлгун, может, Могол-Монгол? Гвинед от "венеды-венды"?
...The only contemporary information about the person is provided by Gildas, who includes Maelgwn among the five British kings who he condemns in allegorical terms in his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae. He says Maelgwn held a regional pre-eminence among the other 4 kings, going on to say that he overthrew his paternal uncle (Latin: avunculus) to gain the throne; that he had taken up life as a monk but then returned to the secular world; that he had been married and divorced, then remarried to the widow of his nephew after being responsible for his nephew's death; and that he was tall.<12><13>
- нехороший царь, убийца близких, не снова ли Грозный?
In his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (English: On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain), written c. 540, Gildas makes an allegorical condemnation of 5 British kings by likening them to the beasts of the Christian Apocalypse as expressed in the biblical Book of Revelation, 13-2: the lion, leopard, bear, and dragon, with the dragon supreme among them.<16> He says that Maelgwn is the "dragon of the island", and goes on with a litany of moral accusations, in the process describing him almost as a regional high king over the other kings (the power-giving dragon of the Apocalypse). The Isle of Anglesey was the base of power of the kings of Gwynedd, so describing Maelgwn as the "dragon of the island" is appropriate.<12><13><17>
- уподоблен дракону Апокалипсиса, возможно, писания Гильды отражают страх османского=атаманского нашествия 15-16 вв.?
"На Кнуда Великого обычно указывают как на мудрого и успешного правителя Англии, несмотря на двоеженство и различные жестокости." - двоежёнство - не история ли Есфири-Елены там?
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