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Anglo-Saxons.net : Edward the Elder |
 | | He was first married in the 890s, and his wife Ecgwynn was the mother of King Æthelstan (924/5-39), and a daughter, Edith, who married Sihtric, the Norse king of York, in 926. |
 | | It may be, as the charter dealt with land in Kent and as Alfred's will bequeathed to Edward all his bookland in Kent, that Alfred had established his eldest son as sub-king of Kent, as his father Æthelwulf and grandfather Ecgberht had done. |
 | | The "main" version in the 910s is very much a West Saxon version, and records only Edward's achievements, not describing any of Æthelflæd's vital fortress-building against the Five Boroughs or the Norse Vikings or the Welsh, simply noting her death. |
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