Tell me about Alfred the Great. Why was he so great, exactly?

Tell me about Alfred the Great. Why was he so great, exactly?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He's a big guy

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    His beard was aesthetic.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      We don't really know exactly what he looked like.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That looks like absolute shit, why would anyone even make such a thing?

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No other man on record has ever so thoroughly united all the virtues both of the ruler and of the private man. In no other man on record were so many virtues disfigured by so little alloy. A saint without superstition, a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose wars were fought in the defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted up to insolence in the day of triumph – there is no other name in history to compare with his.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You're talking about Biden, right?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      A man like him who becomes king is a once in a thousand years event.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I always wondered why he was never made a saint by either Catholics or Anglicans. He seems more deserving of it than some of the other Englishmen that were canonised.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Maybe because he declared Odin as his direct ancestor.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He thought Woden was just a man though, not a god.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Pretty reasonable of them to discern that IE spiritual tradition was in many ways a form of ancestor worship.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          that's badass

          He btfo'd the Danes, forever ensuring the destruction of Europe.

          sounds like something a son of Odin would do, makes sense

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >In short, I wanted to live honorably as long as I lived, and leave behind, for the people who would come after me, the memory of me in good works.
      What a guy.

      I miss him bros

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      VGH
      why did normBlack folk have to ruin everything

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >In short, I wanted to live honorably as long as I lived, and leave behind, for the people who would come after me, the memory of me in good works.
    What a guy.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He btfo'd the Danes, forever ensuring the destruction of Europe.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He wanted to translate the whole Bible into the common man's tongue (rather than Latin) for study by the people, and was known to have translated the ten commandments, and sections of the Psalms into the Anglo-Saxon language of the day.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Al-Frediyya

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