Alfred the Great : Asser's Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources

Anonymous; Fellow of Trinity College and University Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon History Simon Keynes
Penguin Publishing Group
9780140444094
0-14-044409-2

This comprehensive collection includes Asser's Life of Alfred, extracts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Alfred's own writings, laws, and will. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading.

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