King Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over chess Finish:none probably at the 1936 Eifelrennen

probably at the 1936 Eifelrennen race at the Nurburgring

View of Charing Cross looking up the Strand with the statue of King Charles I on the right

Mr Speaker

and of the Batavian Islands

Plate 282 from chapter 72 of Gleanings of natural history

King Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over chess Finish:none probably at the 1936 EifelrennenKing Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over chess, Roskilde, Denmanrk, 1026 (1913). King Canute (c985 1035) was Viking King of England, Norway and Denmark. Ulf Jarl Torgilsson (c998 1026) married King Canute's sister and was appointed by Canute as the Earl of Denmark. They argued over a game of chess and Canute had Ulf murdered. Illustration from The Northmen in Britain by Eleanor Means Hull, published 1913. Private collection.