In response to this incursion, Alfred led an force against the Danes who, instead of engaging the army of Wessex, fled to their beached ships and sailed to another part of Britain | , Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
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Peacock 1999 , chapter 3• A successful skirmish at the in Berkshire on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and the by Ivar's brother on 5 January 871 | [He] was seen to be more comely in appearance than his other brothers, and more pleasing in manner, speech and behaviour |
This is the one grain of truth in the legend that Alfred was the inventor of shires, hundreds and tithings.
They entrenched themselves, the larger body, at and the lesser under , at , also in Kent | This meant not only that the king had retained the loyalty of , royal and king's , who were charged with levying and leading these forces, but that they had maintained their positions of authority in these localities well enough to answer his summons to war |
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While he was busy with the burial ceremonies for his brother, the Danes defeated the Saxon army in his absence at an unnamed spot and then again in his presence at in May | As king, he saw himself as responsible for both the temporal and spiritual welfare of his subjects |
With civil war looming, the magnates of the realm met in council to form a compromise.
Alfred makes peace with the Danes and takes as his residence | Alfred had been on his way to relieve his son at Thorney when he heard that the and East Anglian Danes were besieging and an unnamed stronghold on the shore |
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Conservative Protestant circles have also welcomed Big Bang cosmology as supporting a historical interpretation of the doctrine of creation | "Constraints on the CMB temperature-redshift dependence from SZ and distance measurements" |
For him, the key to the kingdom's spiritual revival was to appoint pious, learned, and trustworthy bishops and abbots.