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Originally Posted by crich70
Which begs the question of what he was unready for.  |
From Wiki:
"Unready" is a mistranslation of Old English unræd (meaning bad-counsel)—a twist on his name "Æthelred", meaning noble-counsel. A better translation would be ill-advised.
He became King when he was only 10 years old and had very poor advisors.