Don't be silly, Dick. You obviously don't really know the story. Canute's flattering courtiers kept assuring him he had absolute power. So he said, "No I haven't. Come with me to the seashore and I'll show you." So he sat on the beach as the tide came in, and made his flattering courtiers stand all around him, & as the sea came in he shouted at it to 'keep back! keep back! keep back!' And only relented and let them go when they were all ankle-deep in water, saying to them "Now you see how absolute my powers are! so stop your stupid flattery."

So the idea, which you seem to be pursuing in re Jim & me, that Canute made a fool of himself by trying to hold back the tide, misses completely the point that he only pretended to attempt to do so, in order to demonstrate to the courtiers that he couldn't.

As Valerie said, "history has given him the wrong footnote". Obviously so, when fools like you can't even get the point of the story.

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