Crossword-Solution: CANUTE 6 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

THE TROLL GARDEN AND SELECTED STORIES By Willa Cather Contents _Selected Stories_ On the Divide Eric Hermannson's Soul The Enchanted Bluff The Bohemian Girl _The Troll Garden_ Flavia and Her Artists The Sculptor's Funeral “A Death in the Desert” The Garden Lodge The Marriage of Phaedra A Wagner Matinee Paul's Case SELECTED STORIES On the Divide Near Rattlesnake Creek, on the side of a little draw stood Canute's shanty.

The Norwegians used to say that Canute had taken the log across his knee and bent it into the shape he wished.

Here, likewise, was the robe that smothered Agamemnon, Nero’s fiddle, the Czar Peter’s brandy-bottle, the crown of Semiramis, and Canute’s sceptre which he extended over the sea.

When Earl Eirik had ruled over Norway for twelve years, there came a message to him from his brother-in-law King Canute, the Danish king, that he should go with him on an expedition westward to England; for Eirik was very celebrated for his campaigns, as he had gained the victory in the two hardest engagements which had ever been fought in the north countries.

Tree-worship was condemned by the councils of Tours, Nantes, and Auxerre, and in the XIth century it was forbidden in England by the laws of Canute, but these edicts seem to have had little effect.