
The man who made King Alfred great
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The Life of King Alfred
Fonyr says the discovery adds further to our certainty that this is a text of the late ninth century. And in terms of er ww, it tells us further about alfred. I mean, we might think that more about what exactly those scholars like asse were doing at alfred's court during lifetime. Unfortunately, i haven't found in any of the charters that alfred actually issued, clear evidence that asset wrote any of them. But thinking about what their roles were within that world at the court, what were they doing on a day-to-day basis? That's one of the issues for alfred, that there were relatively few people with those levels of lat
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