Hunstanton - North Norfolk
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Norfolk12
N 52° 56.388 E 000° 29.256
31U E 331172 N 5868528
The village sign in Hunstanton depicts St Edmund's arrival in East Anglia and the wolf that protected his body after his martyrdom.
Waymark Code: WMCD33
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/24/2011
Views: 3
According to local tradition, Edmund was adopted by King Æthelweard of East Anglia in Germany.
When the King died in 854, Edmund, still only 14 years old, sailed for East Anglia to claim his inherited land. He arrived just North of Hunstanton. For the next 14 years he was a model King and then in the year 869AD a great army of Danes attacked from the North. Edmund engaged them fiercely in battle, but the Danes had the upper hand and won. Stories tell how the victorious heathen Danes tried to force Edmund to renounce his Christian beliefs, but he refused. So they tied him up and shot him with arrows.
According to legend, a wolf guarded his body until it could be buried in a shrine in what is known today as Bury St Edmund's. The village sign in Hunstanton depicts St Edmund's arrival in East Anglia and the wolf that protected his body after his martyrdom.
Location: On the green overlooking the sea
Plaque: no
Construction Material: carved painted wood on a wooden pole
Sign Date: Not listed
Occasion Commemorated: Not listed
Artist: Not listed
Web Address: Not listed
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