Eadric Streona (died 1017) hoists the head of Osmer on his spear at the Battle of Assandun, 1016. The victim resembled Edmund Ironside. Stratagem of the Duke of Mercia. Copperplate engraving from M. A. Jones’ History of England from Julius Caesar to George IV, G. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, London, 1836.

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