'Edgar the Pacific being rowed down the River Dee by Eight Tributary Princes', c1890. Edgar the Peaceful ( c943-975). Legend has it, following his coronation, eight kings including Kenneth II of Scotland and Mael Coluim, King of Strathclyde pledged allegiance and took to the oars of his state barge on the River Dee near Chester. From "Cassell's Illustrated History of England".

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