King Cnut
Original ID : 1534 Created On : 2003-03-08 Last Modified : 2005-05-01
Graffiti daubed on the school wall, circa 1980 :
Whoever said punk’s dead is a Cnut
At least that’s what I thought it said. Eight years old and convinced that it was a grave insult to compare someone to the viking king of England (1016-1035).
I tried to explain to my peers that Cnut had been a good king, that the popular myth of him trying to turn back the sea was wrong, and thus this was not a very effective insult. It was about that time that the beatings began.