![]() ![]() It may have taken a while for the cult to get going but once up and running, the bandwagon could not be stopped. ![]() Certainly he has done well, over the years, from the processes which turn history into legend. Moreover, although himself fundamentally English (with West Saxon parents and a Mercian wife), he stood for a combination of political interests which made it easier to pass him off as prototypically British. ![]() Beset throughout his reign with the reality or threat of Viking invasions, Alfred battled fiercely and suffered heroically in leading his people to their eventual victory at the same time he promoted the causes of religion and learning, and by the example of his government upheld truth, justice and the Anglo-Saxon way. King Alfred the Great has long been regarded as the archetypal symbol of the nation's perception of itself. ![]()
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