
The man who made King Alfred great
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Is It a Manuscript?
There are certain chapters of it, or as who has takin theno ton from the anglo saxon chronicle. But then it does switches its focus and its is itt changes tone at times to be surprisingly intimate. And so we do get an insight to him in being emotionally invested and motivated in what he's doing as a ruler. We don't have a huge number of mediaeval manuscripts of this text. It doesn't seem to be a text that had huge circulation.
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