How To Use Ethelred In A Sentence
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King Ethelred and his cowardly, selfish Court were well satisfied with this expedient, and the tax called Danegeld was laid upon the people, in order to raise a fund for buying off the enemy.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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My town, despite having been a centre for farmers and farming since just after Ethelred the Unready, has seen its show descend to an unsteady High Street parade of dodgy floats from offcumdens and the ghastly "carnival" run by the mafia and a Frank Warren wannabee (to judge by the number of fights).
Show Sunday
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It is a huge story, full of facts, and Fraser spurns equivocation and doubt as she explains why Alfred was great and Ethelred was unready, why King John was not a good man and Nelson and Wellington were brilliant.
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I don't mind strange-looking names - certainly I find them far less of a problem than 'medieval' characters with names like Blade, Jade, Wolf, Brianna and Topaz, or Aethelred shortened to Red - but I think I'm in a minority.
Nefertiti, by Michelle Moran. Book review
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I bet when he stood by his advance base on Newfoundland, Leif Eriksson would've been surprised to hear his base would fail and his dad's colony on Greenland would eventually die out, that the "new world" would have to be rediscovered in 500 years by explorers from a successor state on the territory of what he knew as the Caliphate of al-Andalus, or 500 years after that the entire world would be dominated by a breakaway colony set up by people from a wretched little country currently being ruled by a wanker named Ethelred.
Changing Course - AGAIN? - NASA Watch
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Thanks, Tim, for the kind comments about the Herring Seller Ethelred and Elsie series.
:Acquired Taste
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Small postholes containing iron nails, early medieval potsherds and a silver coin of Ethelred II dating to 1010 suggested that the terraces had been revetted by posts.
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Small postholes containing iron nails, early medieval potsherds and a silver coin of Ethelred II dating to 1010 suggested that the terraces had been revetted by posts.
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Ethelred - the name refered not to his youth but to his incompetence
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Gunnlaug had the sword Ethelred's-gift, and that was the best of weapons.
The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875
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Aethelred accepted the overlordship of Alfred and demoted himself from cyning (king) to ealdorman ( earl), but in return had the security of connection to the Wessex royal family.
Medieval Women I Adore - Installment 1: Aethelflaed
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They are sticking with qualified statement similar to what was one the website: “martial items could have been collected by kings Penda, Wulfhere or Aethelred during their wars with Northumbria or East Anglia, or indeed by someone whose name is lost to history.”
The Staffordshire Hoard Appeal
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Again, a substantial withdrawal of allegiance from Aethelred must have occurred.
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Silver coins, tens of thousands of them, Arab dirhams, English pennies of Cnut and Aethelred, coins from Harald's empire and beyond.
Crusader Gold
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I hold out the can to Ethelred the Cheap, a guy who's been banned from Ye Olde Friars Club for always deducting the assize from his bill before computing his tip.
At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
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That mailshirts and helms would have been widespread is shown by the fact that Ethelred commanded that every eight hides provide a helmet and byrnie.
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The odal-born men could not prevent it when Ethelred took Alfric back.
The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest
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Sensing that his armies would be routed, Ethelred conjured up a scheme to prevent them from facing the enemy head on.
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Harlow's Robert Halfon called Labour's approach "more Ethelred the Unready than Nixon in China" ? one of the day's more enigmatic remarks.
Sketch: What if the bankers were on benefits?
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Soon enough Ethelred is tangled up in a real life mystery of his own as his ex-wife disappears (can you blame her?) and there follows a very entertaining and funny book as everything is untangled and revealed.
The Herring Seller's Apprentice
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Bernard Cornwell, to his credit, acknowledges in his Historical Note that he has probably been extremely unfair to the real Aethelred.
Sword Song, by Bernard Cornwell. Book review
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They are sticking with qualified statement similar to what was one the website: “martial items could have been collected by kings Penda, Wulfhere or Aethelred during their wars with Northumbria or East Anglia, or indeed by someone whose name is lost to history.”
The Staffordshire Hoard Appeal
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Ethelred smiles a dung-eating grin, then removes a lousy French sou from his purse and drops it ceremoniously into my cup, as if he wants a freaking jousting field named after him for his piddling contribution.
At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
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Cornwell cheerfully confesses that there is absolutely no evidence that Aethelred was the weak and devious snake depicted in "Sword Song" and "Burning Land", and that he is taking shameless advantage of the fact that setting his stories in a relatively obscure period igives him the opportunity to use some artistic licence!
Sword Song, by Bernard Cornwell. Book review
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His attempts to buy off Viking invaders gave him the name, Ethelred the Unready.
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The monarch, better known as Aethelred the Unready due to his difficult reign, was known for using bands of Scandinavian mercenaries to carry out his bidding.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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I hold out the can to Ethelred the Cheap, a guy who's been banned from Ye Olde Friars Club for always deducting the assize from his bill before computing his tip.
At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
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Again, a substantial withdrawal of allegiance from Aethelred must have occurred.
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He was known as Ethelred the Unready - not because of a lack of military preparation but because he was uncounselled or "unread".
BBC News - Home
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After the death of Ethelred the Unready in 1016, the throne of England passed to Canute.
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Poor Aethelred of Mercia gets a very unflattering portrayal, and probably has grounds for joining the Support Group for People Unfairly Maligned in Historical Fiction.
Sword Song, by Bernard Cornwell. Book review
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It's a tricky one; we don't know Aethelred wasn't a snake.
Sword Song, by Bernard Cornwell. Book review