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The Life and Times of Alfred the Great

Note 930 — LECTURE VI LITERARY WORKS (continued); SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

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‘Pupillorum’; in Ps. ix. 34 (x. 16) ‘pupillo tu eris adiutor’ is paraphrased ‘þu eart fultumiend þara þe nabbað nawðer ne fæder ne modor.’ Cf. the elegy on the death of Charles the Great:—

‘Pater cunctorum orphanorum, omnium Peregrinorum, uiduarum, uirginum.’ Printed at the end of Einhard’s Life (ed. Pertz, 1863), p. 41.

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