Flee, English! Dead is Edmond!', c1860, (c1860). During one of the many battles between the King of England Edmund II, known as Edmund Ironside and Danish king Cnut the Great, a severed held was held up that a resembled Edmund Ironside, paralysing the English army causing mass panic. From The Comic History of England, Volume I, by Gilbert A A'Beckett. [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., London]
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