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| Keywords: Knut syni.jpg en Cnut king of England Denmark and Norway and his sons Harald Harefoot and Harthacnut Cnut's mother's Świętosława / Sigrid the Haughty although a Slavic princess daughter to Mieszko I of Poland in accord with the Monk of St Omer's Encomium Emmae5 and Thietmar of Merseburg's contemporary Chronicon6 is likely 7 Norse sources of the high medieval period most prominently Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla also give a Polish princess as Cnut's mother whom they call Gunhild and a daughter of Burislav the king of Vindland 13 Since in the Norse sagas the king of Vindland is always Burislav this is reconcilable with the assumption that her father was Mieszko not his son Bolesław http //molcat1 bl uk/IllImages/Kslides 5Cmid/K066/K066597 jpg anonymous century 13 PD-art Royal 14 B V Harold Harefoot Canute the Great Harthacnut Genealogical chronicle of the English Kings 1275-1300 - BL Royal MS 14 B V PD-old | ||||
