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ASSER’S
LIFE OF KING ALFRED
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TRANSLATED FROM THE TEXT OF STEVENSON’S EDITION
BY
ALBERT S. COOK
Professor of the English Language and Literature in Yale University
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Copyright, 1906
By ALBERT S.
COOK
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The issue of Stevenson’s long and eagerly expected edition of Asser’s Life of King Alfred has provided an opportunity to supply the ever increasing number of the great king’s admirers with a more satisfactory rendering into English of this, perhaps the most precious document, notwithstanding all its faults, for the comprehension of his life and character.
The authenticity of the Life was impugned by Thomas Wright in 1841, by Sir Henry Howorth in 1876–77, and by an unknown writer in 1898, and it had becom