The Ward of King Canute

Ottilie / Ottilia Adelina Liljencrantz (1876-1910) was the author of The Thrall of Leif the Lucky (1902), The Ward of King Canute (1903), Vinland Champions (1904) and Viking's Love and Other Tales of the North (1911). This particular novel tells of the romance between an orphaned Danish noblewoman and a young English nobleman, set during the Danish-English warfare of the early 11th century.