King Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over chess Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Singer Joe Strummer and bassist

Singer Joe Strummer and bassist Paul Simonon

249 of the Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage

in cutting the canal at the Isle of Dogs

Hounslow is now in the London borough of Hounslow

Aldgate in London

King Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over chess Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Singer Joe Strummer and bassistKing 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.