The story is Eadric Streona's murder of King Edmund Ironside, the last king of Wessex, in the hope of gaining favour from King Knut. What he got was rather a "tall order"...
Marking 1,000 years since Britain’s Danish conqueror Canute granted all people living in Britain, rich or poor, the equal right to petition the king.
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