> History is, after all, written by the winners.

In that case, the Anglo-Saxon records shouldn't call Aethlered "Unraed" (essentially, "The Fool").

If one considers the English as the long-term winners, he should be a hero. If you consider them as short-term losers, the records should have been destroyed.

History writing is far more complicated than that familiar, glib proverb would have us believe.