Edmund Ironside

…Edmund keeps Wessex, but Canute gets Mercia and therefore effectively everything north of the River Thames. And we've promised toilet-based misadventure. Edmund does not long outlive the agreement. So on the 30th of November, 1016, he dies, possibly of wounds suffered in battle. But another account says that he was murdered while sitting on the toilet.…

…He had scorned to flee England when Æthelred and his sons by Emma had gone. He'd stayed in England. He's very charismatic. He's very brave. And he's so formidable in battle that he wins the nickname of Ironside. He's a tremendous man, isn't he? And actually, you could say he is the last English king in the sense that he is the last king to rule who is of pu…