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"The Death of King Edgar" is an Old English poem commemorating the death of the English King Edgar, nicknamed "the Peaceful". The poem, a "song of mourning",[1] is found in two of the manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

  1. ^ Pancoast 44.

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