Archives for February 2011

in those miserable days the commonest necessaries of life were hard enough to come by for the King and his few companions.Continuing Alfred the

First a dense fog and then a great storm came on, bursting on the south coast with such fury that the pagans lost no less than one hundred of their

There must have been some few days of harassing suspense, for we cannot suppose that Alfred was not aware of the movements of his terrible

Foolish king's thanes, turned into King Popinjays by pagans and left to play at government on such terms, are not pleasant or profitable objects in

"This year," says the Saxon Chronicle, "nine general battles were fought against the army in the kingdom south of the Thames.Continuing Alfred the