• NegativeNull@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    The Anglo Saxons are a mixed bag

    Edward ‘the Confessor’
    Ethelred ‘the Unready’
    Edmund ‘the Magnificent’
    Edmund ‘Ironside’
    Harold ‘Harefoot’
    Edgar ‘the Peaceful’

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      Ethelred is doubly funny, because “unraed” actually translates to “badly counciled”. So it’s really “Ethelred the Ill-advised”, which is somehow even worse.