Civilisation had been restored to the Island. But now the political fabric which nurtured it was about to be overthrown. Hitherto strong men armed had kept the house. Now a child, a weakling, a vacillator, a faithless, feckless creature, succeeded to the warriour throne.
On Ethelred the Unready Vol I; The Birth of Britain. - A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
