A history lesson?
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Derek Yates
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Ethelred, known as 'the Unready' (a mis-translation, in fact, of Unraed meaning 'lacking counsel'-but one which is perhaps most apt), ascended the English throne in ad 979. He was crowned on 14 April of that year, at Kingston, by Archbishop Dunstan. Even at the start of his reign, coastal raids by