Alfreds Dynasty: How an Anglo-Saxon King and His Family Defeated the Vikings and Created England Bartlett W. B.
Alfreds Dynasty: How an Anglo-Saxon King and His Family Defeated the Vikings and Created England Bartlett W. B. In 878, Alfred king of Wessex was on the verge of oblivion. Yet within months he had…
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Alfreds Dynasty: How an Anglo-Saxon King and His Family Defeated the Vikings and Created England Bartlett W. B.
In 878, Alfred king of Wessex was on the verge of oblivion. Yet within months he had defeated the Viking invaders and started to reverse the tide of conquest. Trapped on a small island in the Somerset Levels, it seemed as if he and his kingdom were about to be destroyed.
Two of his children, Edward - king of Wessex after him - and his remarkable daughter thelfl d, the Lady of the Mercians, expanded his kingdom into Mercia in the Midlands. While Alfred was driven by the prospect of a land that did not yet exist called England, he did not finally create it. His grandson thelstan confirmed the conquest of the north at one of the great battles of the so-called Dark Ages at Brunanburh.
The triumph of Alfred's dynasty was cemented by the short but magnificent reign of Edgar 'the Peaceable', a man who could claim to be not just king of England but emperor of the whole of Britain. The