Who is Saint Edmund from The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology and what is their importance? The_Anglo-Saxon_World English & Literature Saint Edmund | The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology

King Edmund is faced with a choice of paying off the Viking invaders or dying along with his people. Edmund chooses to die like a Christian martyr, calling on the name of Christ as his body is filled with arrows. After he is beheaded, a wolf miraculously watches over his head until his followers can find it and bury it with his body.