A St Edmund memorial penny worn by a Viking to ... who's a Christian wearing a coin with a cross to convey that fact - this pendant's got quite a story behind it." ...
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login St Edmund, king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or "Vikings") in 869, was one of the pre-eminent saints of the middle ages; his ...
The steel monk has been placed in the crypt in the abbey ruins in Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, where the shrine of St Edmund would have stood. The 2.3m (7ft 6in) tall sculpture was designed by ...