@joyce

You'll be able to write in to Britannica. (-:

It has a lengthier article than my printed encyclopaedias and is definite about London being the place.

https://britannica.com/biography/Ethelred-the-Unready

I've done a bit of amateur searching out of curiosity and the work with the best footnotes seems to source the death in London to ASC E.

Another one pointed to the chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg, so I had a look for an English translation of that. Fortunately I found a snippet translation of the initial part of chapter 40. Unfortunately, it isn't specific about Æthelred being in London, only that xyr wife and sons were.

Interesting. It seems unlikely that they weren't where Æthelred was, though.

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@joyce

I don't have totally up to date reference books. Has 21st century scholarship cast doubt upon where Æthelred the Unready died?

My most thumbed books for this (that are detailed enough to give a location) are secondhand and were published in 1969, and I think that the reassessment of the reign was after that. They're unequivocal about London being the place.

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