2-651-925 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Flee, English! Dead is Edmond!', c1860, (c1860). During one of the many battles between the King of England Edmund II, known as Edmund Ironside and Danish king Cnut the Great, a severed held was held up that a resembled Edmund Ironside, paralysing the English army causing mass panic. From The Comic History of England, Volume I, by Gilbert A A'Beckett. [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., London]