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| | IONA - Saint Eadmund of East Anglia - Section I |
 | | The life and the reign of Saint Eadmund, King of East Anglia, were short and stripped of legend and fiction, the mistaken or fanciful accretions of ages, may be shortly told. |
 | | Eadith was sister to Aethelstan, who during Ecgberht’s lifetime was Sub-King of East Anglia, and after Ecgberht’s death became King of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Essex, whilst Aethelwulf probably half-brother to Aethelstan, succeeded to the West Saxon throne. |
 | | His fleet approaching from the north east ‘a boreali parte orientali’ as Abbo of Fleury attests, came to shore near the mouth of the river now known as the Alde, at a spot then probably called Ora, that is bank of shore, but in later times named Orford. |
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