Excerpt from Corolla Sancti Eadmundi: The Garland of Saint Edmund, King and Martyr<br><br>The obscurity which hangs over the early history iof East Anglia grows deeper as the rays that fall from the pages of Bede, whose death is placed in 735, cease to guide our re searches. The English Chronicle fails us from a still earlier period. From about the middle of the seventh century, that is, from the date of the battle of the Winwaed in 655, when, together with Penda the Mercian, Ethelhere, the king of the East Angles, was routed and slain by Oswin, to near the close of the eighth century, when in 794 Ofi'a, another king of Mercia, caused the murder of S. Ethelbert, another East Anglian sovereign, and annexed his dominions, not a single entry in the national records makes mention of events specifically concerning the East Anglian realm.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.