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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 Nick Collins 2012
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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.”
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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 Carla 2009
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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 Carla 2009
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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.
Archive 2009-10-01 Carla 2009
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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 Carla 2009
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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 Carla 2009
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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.
Archive 2009-10-01 Carla 2009
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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 Carla 2007
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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 Gibbons, David 2007
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