Anglo-Saxons Prince Edward

“Each must mourn the loss of his lordwho thinks to live after him with honour.”— Beowulf, línes 3170–3171 Edward is not yet king.But from the moment his sword was first belted to his waist, the burden of the crown has followed him like a shadow. As an ætheling, a royal-born heir, his life is no longer his own. He is the living pledge of continuity, the vessel of ancestral oath, and the first target of every foreign threat and internal ambition. In ninth-century England, a prince was not raise