ALFRED THE GREAT Asser’s L ife o f K ing A lfred and other contemporary sources TRANSLATED W I T H AN I N T R O D U C T I O N AND NOT E S BY Simon Keynes and M ichael Lapidge PENGUIN BOOKS Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books, 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, U.S.A. He has translated the Latin writings of Aldhelm, and is the author of numerous articles on Insular Latin literature. , was born in Canada in 1942, and since 1969 has been living in Cambridge, where he is now University Lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. He is the author of The Diplomas of King Æthelred ‘the Unready\ Michael Lapidge, m. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1976, and is now University Lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. , was born in 1952 and educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. RIEU Editor: Betty Radice Simon Keynes, m. THE PENGUIN CLASSICS FOUNDER EDITOR ( 1 9 4 4 - 6 4 ) : E. Miscellaneous Sources For the Reign of King Alfred Extracts from the laws of King Alfred The treaty between Alfred and Guthrum The will of King Alfred King Alfred*s charter for Ealdorman Æthelhelm The letter of Fulco, archbishop of Rheims, to King Alfred Bishop Wulfsige s preface to the translation of Gregory*s Dialogues Æthelweard's account of the closing years of Alfred's reign Two acrostic poems on King Alfred The Burghai Hidage Appendix I: Alfred and the Cakes Appendix II: The Alfred Jewel Notes To Introduction And Text Note on Further Reading References Index Recommend Papers Extracts From the Writings of King Alfred The preface to Werferth’s translation of Gregory*s Dialogues From the translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care From the translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy From the translation of Augustine's Soliloquies From the prose translation of the Psalter IV. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Table of contents : Contents Preface Introduction I. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.
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