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For example, King Edmund II, who was stabbed by a Viking hiding in his pit latrine, receives little sympathy from the reaper.

From 786 Lincoln suffered repeatedly from visitations of the Danes, control being recovered by Edmund II., according to agreement with Canute in 1016.

However, Edmund II., better known as Edmund Ironsides, did not live many days longer, being murdered at Oxford.