And this is seo gerædnis eac the Ælfred cyng and Guthrum cyng.
Tha feng Ælfred hiera brothur to rice and tha wæs agan his ielde xxiii wintra, and ccc and xcvi wintra thæs the his cyn ærest Wessexana lond on Wealum geodon.
This syndon tha domas the Ælfred cyneg and Guthrum cyneg gecuran.
Other men have been greater warriors or legislators or scholars than Ælfred was, but no man has ever combined in his own person so much excellence in war, in legislation, and in scholarship.
He disliked the roughness of the English, but instead of attempting to improve them as the great Ælfred had formerly done, he stood entirely aloof from them.
Guthrum with a few of his companions then visited Ælfred at Wedmore, a village near the southern foot of the Mendips, from which is taken the name by which the treaty is usually but wrongly known.
In Normandy there were two English Ethelings, Ælfred and Eadward, the sons of Æthelred by Emma, who seem to have thought that the absence of Harthacnut gave them a chance of returning to England.
To an improved army Ælfred added a navy, and he was the first English king who defeated the Danes at sea.
In =955= Eadred died, having completed the work which Ælfred had begun, and which had been carried on by his son and his three grandsons.
From Glastonbury he carried on the work of teaching an ignorant generation, just as Ælfred had done in an earlier time.
After this defeat Guthrum and the Danes swore to a peace with Ælfred at Chippenham.
By this treaty Ælfred retained no more than Wessex, with its dependencies, Sussex and Kent, and the western half of Mercia.
Wasn't the cathedral begun by the father of Ælfred on the foundations of that poor church as well as those of a Roman temple?
The same sort of fellows did dump Ælfred and his queen out of their comfortable stone coffins, you know, to use the stone.
The names Ælfred and Edward and the female name Eadgyth seem to have been the only English names adopted by the Normans.
But another law of Ælfred seems to reveal more clearly the second or transitional phase in the history of the wedding contract; for the bride-price is paid to the woman.
Then a certain Ælfred conceived the idea of stealing St. Bede's remains for the glorification of Durham.
It was a royal manor in the days of King Alfred, being granted to his nephew, and it was here a few years before the Norman Conquest that the ætheling Ælfred was captured.
The blood of Cerdic and Ælfred was to blend itself with that of Hrolf and the Conqueror.
Outside the Chronicle we encounter a great and valuable mass of historical material for the age of Ælfred and his successors.
The sense of a single England deepened with the pressure of the invaders; the monarchy of Ælfred and his house broadened into an English kingdom; but still tribal jealousies battled with national unity.
It was with the peace he had won still about him that Ælfred died in 901, and warrior as his son Eadward had shown himself, he clung to his father's policy of rest.
While every other name of those earlier times has all but faded from the recollection of Englishmen, that of Ælfred remains familiar to every English child.
They recognized a common king as a common struggle changed Ælfred and his sons from mere leaders of West-Saxons into leaders of all Englishmen in their fight with the stranger.
But simple as was his aim, Ælfred changed the whole front of our literature.
But still more is it this height and singleness of purpose, this absolute concentration of the noblest faculties to the noblest aim, that lifts Ælfred out of the narrow bounds of Wessex.
It was the consciousness of this and a hatred of rulers such as Harald and Harthacnut which co-operated with the old feeling of reverence for the past in calling back the line of Ælfred to the throne.
The victory of the house of Ælfred only hastened a process of fusion which was already going on.
But it was the war with the northmen that raised Ælfred and his sons from tribal leaders into national kings.
Of the narrowness, of the want of proportion, of the predominance of one quality over another which goes commonly with an intensity of moral purpose Ælfred showed not a trace.
The life of Ælfred which bears the name of Asser, puzzling as it is in some ways, is probably really Asser's work, and certainly of contemporary authority.
We cannot but contrast the inertness of Northumbria and the lukewarmness of Mercia with the stubborn resistance finally made by Ælfred in Wessex.
The treaty entered into with Guthrum restored to Ælfred all Wessex, with the south-western part of Mercia, from London to Bedford, and thence along the line of Watling Street to Chester.
At his court, too, if not under his own direction, the English Chronicle was first begun, and many of the sentences quoted from that great document in this work are probably due to Ælfred himself.
The men of Somerset and Wilts, with those Hampshire men who had not fled to the Continent, gathered at a sacred stone on the borders of Selwood Forest, and there Ælfred met them with his little band.
The language of Beowulf and of Ælfred is not, as many people still imagine, a different language from our own; it is simply English in its earliest and most unmixed form.
But in the rare intervals of peace, Ælfred did his best to civilise his people.
It may be marked that in the English army King Æthelred is set against the Danish Kings, and his brother the Ætheling Ælfred against the Jarls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lfred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
