From Asgard to Valhalla Quotes

“In 869 we have an event which rapidly achieved almost mythic status in English Christian folklore: the horrible martyrdom of King Edmund of East Anglia by the appalling Ivar the Boneless, who according to some traditions brought a great Viking army to England in pursuit of revenge for the killing of his father, the semi-legendary Ragnar Lothbrok, executed by the king of Northumbria.”
― Heather O'Donoghue, From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths