\u201cUnder AEthelred nothing was done; or, more truly, throughout his whole reign he left undone those things which he ought to have done, and he did those things he ought not to have done.\u201d \xa0 That is the damning conclusion of \xa0Edward Augustus Freeman, a Victorian historian, and epic beard grower.
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