In the canon
Life of King Alfred
Asser
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 893 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 200
A Welsh monk rides east out of St David's to a king's hall and agrees, after long hesitation, to give Alfred half of every year. What he set down is the only close-range life of any Anglo-Saxon king.
His noble nature implanted in him from his cradle a love of wisdom above all things
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