[Peace-discuss] Fw: Informed Comment - The World in 2012

[Carl G. Estabrook]

'Æthelred the Unready, or Æthelred II (circa 968 – 23 April 1016), was king of England (978–1013 and 1014–1016) ... "Unready" is a mistranslation of Old English unræd (meaning bad-counsel) —a twist on his name "Æthelred" (meaning noble-counsel). A better translation would be ill-advised.'

Cole's summary of non-European history is presumably more reliable. --CGE


On Jan 4, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com> wrote:

--- On Thu, 1/3/13, Informed Comment <jricole at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...Although it probably wasn’t very important then, some things did happen in Europe. King Sweyn 1 of Denmark and his son Canute invaded England and briefly dethroned Ethelred (who thereby got the sobriquet “the Unready.” He fled for a while to Normandy, which was probably unwise. It may have suggested to the Normans that the king of England was weak and ripe for the plucking...