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Edmund hadn’t lost, and for now that was enough.
He had shown himself to be a contender. So Ironside took his remaining men and marched East… but the accounts are careful to point out that he stayed north of the Thames…. And this decision has lead scholars to believe that Mercia may have already been on Edmund’s side, or was quickly coming around to it.
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