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The Life and Times of Alfred the Great

Note 616 — LECTURE V CIVIL ADMINISTRATION (continued) EDUCATION; LITERARY WORKS

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Anglo-Saxon Version, ch. xvii; ed. Sedgefield, p. 40; the translation which follows is taken mainly from Mr. Sedgefield’s handy rendering of Alfred’s version into modern English, in which the passages added by Alfred to his original are very conveniently indicated by italics, p. 41.

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