Note 465 — Chapter V · THE DANISH CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.[464] 975–1016.
Reading edition
“Unready” must mean “lacking rede” or counsel. Walter Map (De Nugis, 199) calls him “Edelredus, quem Anglici consilium [insilium? see below, p. 317] vocaverunt, quia nullius erat negotii.” “Magnificus,” the epithet of Eadmund the First, means rather “worker of great deeds”—the Greek μεγαλοπράγμων,—than “magnificent” in the vulgar sense.