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Medieval All-Rounder

In 1899, a thousand years after Alfred the Great’s death, England was in the grip of Alfred mania. Statues were erected, books written and Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had even named their son after the hero–king.

But the Victorians were not the originators of the Alfred myth. Nearly every passing century since 899 has seen another accretion to its legend, from the 11th century story of the cakes to the 18th century, when Thomas Arne’s opera, «Alfred: A Masque» (from which «Rule Britannia» is taken), was first performed.

It is only in our time that Alfred has become the almost exclusive property of historians and schoolchildren. Few dispute the core of Alfred’s story as witnessed by the «Anglo–Saxon Chronicle» and Alfred’s own writings.

Most crucially, he saw off a Viking force which threatened to wipe out Anglo–Saxon rule in England. By the time the Vikings turned their attentions to Wessex, Alfred’s homeland, while he was still a boy, they had killed the rulers of two of the three other major kingdoms in the 9th century England. So, it seems reasonable to assume that Alfred was fighting for his physical as well as his political survival when, as King. He at last won a convincing victory in Edington in 878.

When the fighting let up, Alfred turned from general to headmaster. As the youngest of five sons, Alfred can never have expected to inherit the crown of Wessex. But he took advantage of the bad luck of his older brothers by ensuring that his offspring were more likely to inherit than theirs. It was under the House of Alfred that England was united. Despite it remoteness from his own life, the image of Alfred as a survivor of a larger nation than Wessex alone became a key element in the Alfred myth. (Britain Today)



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  1. Alfred at last won a convincing victory in Edington in___.

  2. Alfred can never have expected to inherit the crown of ____.

  3. England was in the grip of Alfred mania

  4. «Rule Britannia» is taken from

  5. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had named their son after the hero–king

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