Alfred Burning the Cakes

The story of king alfred burning the cakes isn't something that is attested until the eleventh century a. So we don't know if he was a baker or not in terms of contemporary evidence. This is a very international worldare just talking about what it tells usand what we can learn from t then what? What sort of commonly held views about alfred are down to asses life? I think the life has probably had a very big impact on why alfred ended up being called the great. And this isn't an epithet that he is given during his lifetime. It's much later, a, i believe it's the sixteenth century when the first surviving e examples of