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* '''Edmund Ironside:''' Anglo-Saxon king (ca. 980 – 1016), who led the resistance against the Viking king Canute | * '''Edmund Ironside:''' Anglo-Saxon king (ca. 980 – 1016), who led the resistance against the Viking king Canute | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:32, 1 July 2012
- iron-sided: work boots
- Old Ironsides: nickname of Oliver Cromwell
- ironsides: from the above, the nickname for Parliamentary cavalry during the English Civil War
- Old Ironsides: bicname from American frigate U.S.S. Constitution
- Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon king (ca. 980 – 1016), who led the resistance against the Viking king Canute
