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# Actually
he was referring to their likeness to an ancient Viking leader.
(OB1, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 15:04, archived)
# Like Magus Magnusson?
.
(dawn_syndrome dawn_syndrome, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 15:06, archived)
# No
He was the weightlifter guy from The World's Strongest Man.
(OB1, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 15:06, archived)
# Wasn't he disqualified
for cheating by using spells?
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 15:08, archived)
# What, like
"Strength stat +1 vs Heavy Weights"?
(OB1, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 15:15, archived)
# Do you mean Quentin Bloodaxe then?
.
(dawn_syndrome dawn_syndrome, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 15:08, archived)
# A
Danish king of England, no less, whose reign is all but forgotten because he brought 30 years of peace and prosperity and didn't have anyone beheaded, massacred, locked in a tower, betrayed, flayed, gouged, quartered, drawn, buried alive, impaled, keelhauled or even just plain outlawed.

Go feegyure
(I helped save b3ta! Oscar Wildebeest, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 15:22, archived)
# According to FM Stenton:
"The barbarian strain in Cnut's mentality often determined his conduct. At least four prominent Englishmen - Eadric Streona among them - were slaughtered without any recorded trial in the first months of his reign. Eadwig the last surviving son of Aethelred's first marriage, was driven into flight and afterwards sought out and killed by Cnut's orders. ..."
And so on.
On the other hand, I like his cheerful approach to bigamy, and he was a very successful ruler.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassidy : Vissi d'arte, Wed 11 Jun 2003, 15:34, archived)