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“No man can make himself king, but the people have the choice to choose as king whom they please; but after he is consecrated as king, he then has dominion over the people, and they cannot shake his yoke from their necks.”
So reads the homily written by the famed writer, AElfric. He was writing his patrons, Ealdorman AEthelweard the Chronicler and his son, AEthelmaer, a decade or so after King Edward was killed.
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