Gerhard Quite right. It should have been 6 hours - quite a short feast by Viking standards!
Chris Mason On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:26:21 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> wrote: >Chris Mason wrote: >> Paul >> >>> No, in this case more like Cnut ordering back the tide. >> >> Not at all! Cnut was demonstrating to his sycophantic courtiers that he could >> not command the sea. When I'm reminded of this story, I muse that maybe he >> tried 12 hours earlier than the incident reported and exclaimed "Well, you're >> right. I can command the sea." But then he suggested they came back a while >> later in order to be sure - after some feasting and quaffing perhaps! > >If it really had been twelve hours, he would have gotten the >same result - there are two tides per day. Now six hours might >make for a problem. > > > >Gerhard Postpischil >Bradford, VT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
