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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 310640, member: 5833"]I was intrigued by 'King Alfred Maketh Him a Clock'. Evidently part of his legend:</p><p><br /></p><p>The burnishing of King Alfred’s reputation in legend was posthumous, not flowering until the twelfth century.[4] Alfred’s hagiographic biographer in life, Asser, had missed out greatness from his portrait: young Alfred wants nothing better than to win a book of Anglo-Saxon poetry from his mother, and learns to translate Latin into Old English when divine inspiration arrives at the age of thirty-nine. He also invents the candle-clock.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 310640, member: 5833"]I was intrigued by 'King Alfred Maketh Him a Clock'. Evidently part of his legend: The burnishing of King Alfred’s reputation in legend was posthumous, not flowering until the twelfth century.[4] Alfred’s hagiographic biographer in life, Asser, had missed out greatness from his portrait: young Alfred wants nothing better than to win a book of Anglo-Saxon poetry from his mother, and learns to translate Latin into Old English when divine inspiration arrives at the age of thirty-nine. He also invents the candle-clock.[/QUOTE]
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