Kent 1017 AD onwards
Kent 1017 AD onwardsEdmund was buried near his grandfather Edgar at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset and was succeeded by Cnut, who visited his tomb on the anniversary of his death and laid a cloak decorated with peacock motifs on it to assist in his salvation since those birds symbolised resurrection.
Folcwin, plunged into the depths of despair, grieving not only for his involuntary act of fratricide but also the death of the one man he believed would have made England Perfecta Saxonia once more, as in the reign of Aethelstan. Inconsolable for the loss of Aelfwynn, he retired to the cavern in the Chesmunds Woods, living for a year as a hermit and refusing to see his family or closest friends. Only Helmfrid knew where he was and occasionally visited with provisions.
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