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Cnut
In Our Time
The Importance of Empire
England is rich in a way that Scandinavia really isn't at this point in time. England is almost the engine of Knut's economic administration across his Nazi empire. What did he get out of that? Partly it's about a performance of Christian kingship. But part of it is to building this alliance with Conrad. If you think ahead, if his daughter had a daughter with Henry III, and then unfortunately his daughter died, would have made an extraordinarily powerful arc across Europe.
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