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Alfred the Great
(~849 - 899)

Alfred the Great


"My will was to live worthily as long as I lived, and after my life to leave to them that should come after, my memory in good works."


Ruled England from 871 to 899, defended Anglo-Saxon England from Viking raids, formulated a code of laws, and fostered a rebirth of religious and scholarly activity
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