'Meeting of Edmund Ironside and Canute, on the Isle of Alney, in the Severn', c1890. Edmund Ironside (c990-1016) meets King Canute (c995-1035) on Alney Island in the River Severn, Gloucestershire to negotiate a peace agreement following the Battle of Assandun. From "Cassell's Illustrated History of England".

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