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The Life and Times of Alfred the Great

Note 622 — LECTURE V CIVIL ADMINISTRATION (continued) EDUCATION; LITERARY WORKS

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R. W. i. 324; he alters Werwulf’s name into Werebert, probably because there was a bishop of Leicester of that name early in the ninth century. There was an Athelstan bishop of Hereford early in the eleventh century. This may give us an idea of Wendover’s critical skill.

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