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Toad Testicles, Foul-Beard and Broad-Arse

Nicknames can easily raise an eyebrow, but they have value to the historian beyond humour.

Tristan Alphey | Published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 3 March 2023

Edmund ‘Ironside’, from the Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings, late 13th century.
Edmund ‘Ironside’, from the Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings, late 13th century © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images.

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