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| 'Edmund, King of East Anglia, Killed by the Danes', from James E Doyle, A Chronicle of England, B.C. 55-A.D. 1485 |
Ave rex gentis Anglorum
O Edmunde flos martyrum
velut rosa vel lilium
funde preces ad Dominum
pro salute fidelium.
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