Why was he such a failure?
>>1770803
4chan's reply: bad genes, didn't lift, probably aspergers and lack of confidence and achievements.
He wasn't ready
>>1770808
you beat me to it, lol
>>1770803
his palms were sweaty
>>1770803
Mom's spaghetti
>>1770803
Noble counsel? more like no counsel
lmao rekt
He got fucked in the arse by 4 danish berserkers
>>1770803
niggas fucking weilding the moonlight greatsword from dark souls!
He was ill advised?
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>expecting /his/ to know anything about the TRUE kings of England
>>1772959
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>"Unready" is a mistranslation of the Old English word unræd (meaning bad-counseled), a twist on his name "Æthelred", meaning noble-counseled. It should not be "unprepared", but rather "ill-advised".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelred_the_Unready
Why were their portraits such shit back then?
His sons were even bigger failures.
>>1773883
Might be pulling this from my ass but its because most of the surviving portraits of kings from that period survive in manuscripts, chances are they had better portraits they just didn't survive.