Crossword clues for ethelred
ethelred
- Old king extremely emotional drinking the wine
- Signal not to go after a woman, one who wasn't ready?
- Alfred the Great's brother and predecessor, d. 871 - the elder
- Ninth-century king of Wessex
- The Unready
- Unready king
- Unready English king
- English king nicknamed "the Unready" (ooh, that hurts!)
- Edward the Confessor's father
- He struggled unsuccessfully against the invading Danes (969-1016)
- King of Wessex and Kent and elder brother of Alfred
- Alfred joined Ethelred's battle against the invading Danes and succeeded him on his death (died in 871)
- King of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Saint Edward the Martyr was murdered
- Name of two English kings
- Early English king
- King of England: 978–1016
- Close to broke and left overdrawn apparently? He wasn't ready!
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "ethelred".
He tried mind over matter and went through the Kings and Queens of England since the year 802: Egbert, Ethelwulf, Ethelbald, Ethelbert, Ethelred, Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, Athelstan, Edmund I, Edred, Edwy, Edgar, Edward II the Martyr but he gave up on the Saxons and Danes, unable to remember whether Harold Harefoot ruled alone or jointly with Hardicanute in 1037.
Sir Ethelred, that so far I have had no opportunity to give you assurances of any kind.
But he kept his head, and at the end of the time mentioned above he broke off with a sudden conclusion, which, reproducing the opening statement, pleasantly surprised Sir Ethelred by its apparent swiftness and force.
Sir Ethelred, that strictly speaking we know nothing positively - as yet.
Sir Ethelred shifted one hand under his coat tails, and tilting back his head, looked at him steadily.
For the rest, Sir Ethelred, the indignation of this man Verloc had left nothing in doubt - nothing whatever.
Sir Ethelred, in a house of bad repute called Continental Hotel, closeted in a room which by-the-by I took for the night.
It sounds an extravagant way of putting it, Sir Ethelred, but his state of dismay suggested to me an impulsive man who, after committing suicide with the notion that it would end all his troubles, had discovered that it did nothing of the kind.
King Ethelred, who came of the long line of native English kings, had been plagued by Viking raids, and they came to a climax in force when Knut the young son of the King of Denmark invaded England.
Emma of course remained in England, but the other survivors of the English royal house, including her own children by Ethelred, were sent into exile and scattered over Europe.
At the age of about thirty-eight, he was the only male survivor of all the seventeen children of Ethelred and Knut.
His great-aunt Emma had been the wife of Ethelred and Knut and mother of Edward, and that was his only remote relationship with the royal house of England.