Alfred the Great
Biography
Alfred hid in Athelney marsh after the Viking storm, burned the cakes legend, then Edington victory 878, the Danelaw divided. The burhs fortified towns, the navy beginnings, the laws, the Angelcynn identity. He translated Gregory and Boethius himself, the school at court. The only English king called Great, his grandson Aethelstan took all England, the line to Elizabeth II runs from him.
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