1,001 years ago, King Cnut took a bath
November 20, 2024 10:54 PM   Subscribe

What is unusual is that Cnut’s bath seems to be the first in English history that a (fairly) reliable written source, Osbern of Canterbury, chooses to pin to a particular time and place.
posted by ShooBoo (1 comment total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Seems typical that the first recorded bath is an interrupted one. I'm pretty sure that if I dared to take a relaxing bath instead of a perfunctory shower the body of a dead saint or something would arrive to interrupt me too.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 12:31 AM on November 21


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