#King Alfred The Great

[w1ckedgal]

[dabiconcordia]

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.” ― Stephen King

[dreamconsumer]

Osburh reading to her son Alfred by Frances Brundage.

[bipunkharrington]

I got Crusader Kings III and am playing King Alfred the Great and it makes me so happy that he's still alive currently, 19 years after his real-life death and the King of England and Wales (with almost all the de jure land).

He is not long for this world so sadly it will probably be his heir (his grandson, because he's lives so long that his oldest son went and died aged 50 waiting to take over 😅) that attempts to bring Scotland and/or Ireland into the fold.

[daviddawsonfangroup]

The King standing at the foot of the King...

[patrick47]

Aethelgifu, The Teenage Abbess: A Peak Inside The Walls Of The Shaftesbury Abbey

[Gold Hill, Shafesbury] Silence isn’t empty, it’s full of answers. It was a chilly day, this fourth day of October. Chilly and windy. Mariam and I had just had a very enjoyable lunch with a former student of mine, Sally, and her husband, Matthew. Sally was in my Geography class when I had the joy of being an exchange teacher at a school in southern Dorset. It was 1984-85 and after a decade or…

[i-did-not-mean-to]

@errruvande Well that fucked me up good and proper!

righting wrongs

summary: Set after season 4. Alfred the Great is sent back one last time in the dead of night to visit four very important people.

a/n: so this started originally as a dumb idea but somehow spiralled into a 4000-word oneshot, i hope u all enjoy <3

tagging: @minimartian @sihtric @othermoony @geekandbooknerd @lauwrite1225 @maggiescarborough @beowulfsdottir

“My England… my love.”

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[tinyshe]

King Alfred the Great | The Historian's Hut

[emvidal]

"The story says he took refuge in Athelney, Somerset, where a swineherd's wife left him to watch the loaves cooking beside the fire. But Alfred was distracted by thinking hard about his fate and about how to fight back – and the loaves burned. The woman reproved him, not realising he was the King." The English used the story to mark a turning point in his life. "Whether or not the legend is true, Athelney was of massive significance to Alfred," explained Prof McTurk. "He built a fort, rallied his troops and from this point onwards did much better against the Vikings."

[gameofthrones2020]

Books on Understanding English History

To understand the history of England, it is first necessary to know how the kingdom of the English came into beginning with the unification of England in 927 CE by the House of Wessex, ruled England from 927 CE to 1016 CE and then was in power again under

To understand the history of England, it is first necessary to know how the kingdom of the English came into beginning with the unification of England in 927 CE by the House of Wessex, ruled England from 927 CE to 1016 CE and then was in power again under Edward the Confessor from 1041 CE to 1066. The founders of the kingdom of the English were Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons and…

[hikaruchen]

Love is all consuming.

(aka I’m horny but I’m trying to pretend that I’m not)

[whitedarkmoonflower]

Alfred's Dream of England // Day 5 // Battles The Last Kingdom // S3E5 & E6 // Battle of Beamfleot

[medievalandfantasymelee]

Yesterday was Father's day. And I was a bit busy. So belatedly, I'd like to wish a Happy Father's Day to the wonderful DILFs of our tournament! They're not all good men (hell they're not all good fathers) but they are all HOT.

[illustratus]

Elaine, the Lily Maid of Astolat by Sophie Gengembre Anderson

[lord-aldhelm]

"Alfred's Dream of England" - Day 1: Favorite Scene

🡢 King Alfred's Coronation | The Last Kingdom 1.03

[viking-chaos]

Alfred's Dream Day 7: Free Day → I'm Out of Town - Horrible Histories