
The man who made King Alfred great
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Are You a Welshman Ase?
Welshman ase would have grown up speaking a different language to old english. Then he's writing in latin, thea, the languageof the church. So can we imagine, like, a court where numerous languages are being used and spoken? Definitely. I mean, i think the lack the dominant language certainly would have been old English. But there would have been other people at his court who were speaking different languages. We know that there were also people from ireland who visited, as well as people from scandinavia. so definitely this was, this is a space that was multilingual at various points in time. Do we know whether king helfred himse
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