Dead Man's Plack
In 963 he reputedly killed his rival in love, Earl Æthelwald, near present-day Longparish, Hampshire, an event commemorated in 1825 by the erection of Dead Man's Plack. Edward Augustus Freeman in 1875 debunked the Æthelwald story as a "tissue of romance" in his Historic Essays, but his arguments were in turn rebutted by the naturalist William Henry Hudson in his 1920 book Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn.
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