Eadric the Grasper: Sons of Mercia: 1

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This fellow was the refuse of mankind, the reproach of the English; an abandoned glutton, a cunning miscreant; who had become opulent, not by nobility, by specious language and impudence. The fighting continued for hours, the sound of shield walls thundering could be heard in the next village.

In 1015 Eadric murdered the earldormen brothers Siegferth and Morcar, during a recess at the great assembly at Oxford. Soon enough, the monotonous rhythm of plodding hooves, snapping twigs, and screeching birds erased the echoes of Godwin’s pissing from Eadric’s ears.He is generally considered an archtraitor in the struggle between the English and the Danes for sovereignty over England. King Ethelred dies and London elects Prince Edmund as their King, who then leaves London to raise an army in Wessex. There, he assumes the heinous task of tattooing incoming Jewish prisoners with the dehumanizing numbers their SS captors use to identify them.

Alphege at Greenwich by Thorkell the Tall's men, Thorkell defected to Ethelred, possibly through Eadric's agency. Lale proves himself an operator, at once cagey and courageous: As the Tätowi erer, he is granted special privileges and manages to smuggle food to starving prisoners.As well as the earlier quote by William of Malmsbury, John of Worcester (died 1140) has this to say: “He was a man, indeed, of low origin but his smooth tongue gained him wealth and high rank, and, gifted with a subtle genius and persuasive eloquence, he surpassed all his contemporaries in malice and perfidy as well as in pride and cruelty. Cnut destroyed a fleet of 30 ships of rebel vikings and in December Eadric Streona was killed by Cnut`s men because of his treachery. Eadric must pit his wits and sword against the crafty masked figure, but doing so traps him in a dark web of lies and deception. We can only assume that Eadric managed to secretly communicate his plan to Canute, as its result bore the hallmark of the wily man’s tactics.