Ethelred the Unready and Edmund Ironside. Our Island Story. By: H.E Marshal. Narrated by me.

Edward the Elder was a wise and good king and his sister named Ethelfleda was also very good and wise. She led the soldiers out to battle. Soon the Danish attacked again. They didn't really keep their promises. And she led them out to battle as usual. After Edward died and his sister died also he gave his son the throne. His name was Athelstane was also a very wise and good king. After he died the young kings began. Some of them were wise and also very good and others were not so good and should have not been the king. The last of the young kings was named Ethelred. He was a horrible leader and they called him Ethelred the Unready. There was agony everywhere because of his choices his people fell. They argued with one another. And the Danish came and attacked them again and he came up with a stupid plan. He decided that he would pay the Danish a large amount so that they would go away. They loved the idea and left with money. Soon they spent all the money and came back for more like a flock of Pigeons or Crows or even Ravens. The unwise king gave them the money larger and larger. Was the money his? Not at all! It was the people's. They gave him some money and then he would give it to the Danish. Soon they wanted more and he raised the taxes. The people thought this was horrible and soon stopped paying Ethelred and soon the Danish attacked again and the people lost heart and lost. Blood was shed. Soon he had a bad idea. He told his men to go and kill Danish men, women, and children. They rode to the  country, and killed the men, women, and children. Death was everywhere. A beautiful Danish women named Gunhilda even though the Danish people were pagans she turned to their church. And her husband and children and everyone tried to protect her but all was in vain. Her husband fell dead with her son before her eyes and the men pulled her by the hair and stabbed the sword in her heart. "Behold this will be a sorrow for you to kill me." She died. It was a sorrow for them because her brother heard the news and went to avenge his sister's death. Death spread where ever they went and Ethelred fled with his wife to France. The king there greeted them kindly and he had pleasures and forgot about his people. The Danish king became ruler over the land then he died so on and so forth. But the people remembered Edward and wanted a king of their own kind again. So they asked Ethelred to come back and rule a little better. He didn't do good at all and he died. Soon arose a good, wise, and powerful king named Edmund he loved his people and still had to fight the Danish and soon felt sick about the war one day that he challenged the Danish leader for a battle just them. And who won? Edmund but how? The Danish leader was strong and so was Edmund but he was tall and the Danish leader felt like he was losing so he cried, "Let us rule in peace!" A

nd that's what happened until he died. 

Wait for part two of another story. I'd read the real book Our Island Story for more FYI. There's more things in this but I need to get on with it and I didn't want to take to long :) Spoilers! 😁😃😄

Edmund Ironside.

Danish Ship.