Note 412 — LECTURE III LIFE OF ALFRED PRIOR TO HIS ACCESSION TO THE THRONE
Reading edition
See Chron. ii. 81, where I have shown that the Chronicle’s (and Asser’s) two years is too long. The Roman historian on the other hand cuts him off too rapidly: ‘reuersus ad proprium regnum … post paucos dies uitam finiuit,’ Liber Pontificalis, ii. 148.