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Asser's Life of King Alfred

Note 230 — Introductory material

Albert S. (Albert Stanburrough) Cook translation

Alfred calls the passages which he translated from St. Augustine’s Soliloquies by the name of ‘flowers’ or ‘blossoms’ (blōstman). See Hargrove’s edition (Yale Studies in English XIII), and his version into modern English (Yale Studies in English XXII).

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