There was a clear sense in all of this of a new beginning – a king on the threshold of great things. Immediately after the coronation in Bath, Edgar went north to Chester, another location redolent of the Roman past, taking with him what the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle called ‘his whole naval force’. Six other rulers reportedly came to meet him there, including the king of Scots and the king of the Strathclyde Britons, and swore to be his allies on land and sea.
