Gunnlaug had the sword Ethelred's-gift, and that was the best of weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875] Reference

He was known as Ethelred the Unready - not because of a lack of military preparation but because he was uncounselled or "unread".    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

M35 The laws of Ethelred regulating foreign trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

In the daies of this Ethelred, the foresaid Danish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England] Reference

Her three children by Ethelred were left in Normandy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

Wherevpon the foresaid Ethelred and Burthred with their.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England] Reference

A great accession of dignity was granted by King Ethelred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference

And on January 5, 1066, King Edward, the son of Ethelred, died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

Nor was cowardice the only charge of which Ethelred was guilty.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

English at Maldon in Essex, his being bought off by Ethelred the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference

Ethelred issued secret orders for a massacre of all Danes found in.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

When Ethelred arrived in England, he was accompanied according to an.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

Ethelred, and, according to tradition, was a giant able to stride across.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

Soon afterwards, still within Lothair's reign, Ethelred of Mercia invaded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

Ethelred, must consist of twelve at least, and not more than twenty-three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference

Kenred, his son, being then too young to govern, his brother Ethelred succeeded him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

Amongest others, Ethelred himselfe receiued a wound, whereof he shortlie after died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England] Reference

Ethelred, after having reigned six years, was buried at Winbourn, in the county of Dorset.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference

Ethelred best, and when he grew older the two brothers fought side by side against the Danes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference

Danes under King Sweyn, in revenge of a massacre of his subjects by the order of King Ethelred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference

Ethelred was now king, and Alfred was old enough to go to the wars and take command of an army.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference

He had a wife named Osburgha, and five sons who were called Ethelstane, Ethelbald, Ethelbert, Ethelred and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference

Ethelred received his death blow, and upon his death, Alfred, who was still a very young man, became king.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference

He was the son of Ethelred and Emma, and at the Christmas festival of his coronation there was great rejoicing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

Ethelred sought to "engraft the branch of Cerdic upon the stem of Rollo," in the hope of increasing the power of England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference

On the death of Swegen, the Danes of his fleet chose his son Cnut to be King, but the English invited Ethelred to return from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

At the close of the tenth century King Ethelred II. adopted a course that was destined to have the most memorable consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference

Ethelred and Alfred attempted to recapture it from them, but pouring out of the gates of the town they routed the English forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference

Northumberland: 'Then let him receive his deserts, that he may not betray us as he betrayed Ethelred and Edmund!' upon which the ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

In 866, Ethelred, third son of Ethelwulf, succeeded to the crown: in whose reign the Danes committed great ravages through the kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference

She seems not to have cared at all for them or for the memory of Ethelred; her whole love passed to her new husband and her new children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

Ethelred, who himself, in 705, quitted his throne of Mercia, and, retiring to Bardney, became its Abbot for the last 13 years of his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

The reign of her son Ethelred was weak and unfortunate, and the source of the greatest miseries to the kingdom, especially from the Danes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference