The History of the Anglo-Saxons From the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest
The History of the Anglo-Saxons From the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest
Sharon Turner
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^' In 955, Edred died ; but not worn out by old age, as some have dreamt. " One expression has ^^^' descended to us concerning him, debilis pedtbtM. weak in the feet.^* We also learn from the writing of an author, almost, if not quite, his contempo- rary, that his indisposition, rather an offensive one, lasted all his reign; and, by a gradual wasting, produced his death. ^ i> Mailnw^ 148. Sim. Dun. 204. ^* It it curious to retd in Wallingford, p. 542., that old age greatly Texed Edred, and that... multiB inoommodis que tenes sdent dr. coiDTenire ad eztrtina deduxit. Araong these erils of senility, he particularises the loss of teeth, debility, and the frequent cough, fami. liaris senihus. Yet Uiis old man could not have been much above thirty; for he was under twenty. three at his accession, and he reigned nine years. The chronicler mistook the consequences of disease, for the natural eflfects of old age. '* It is Hermannus who has left us this trait His MS. is in the Cotton Library, Tib.
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