
The man who made King Alfred great
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Assa Hadd Mis in This Charter?
Asse hadd mis in this charter. Why should we care about that? Well, i suppose the headline is er. It's doubling the corpus of texts written by assa - one of the most famous authors from early mediaeval britain. After alfred died, in eight 99, he's still around at edward's court. This also tells us that he's actually writing latin, probably under the patronage of the king. So it flashes out our sense of as's relationship with edward,. his career after alfred dies, potentially over.
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