King Alfred S Poems

Excerpt from King Alfred's Dreams: And Other Poems The mythology of our English forefathers, so much is lost that it is impossible to know what was remembered of it in King Alfred's days. I have therefore preferred to imagine that it was all but for gotten, and that he learnt about it, as he learnt descriptions of the nations of the North, from Norwegian lips. The Norse gods are thus referred to in their Norse names. Of the Greek mythology King Alfred learnt what he knew through Latin writers, but here I have taken a somewhat analogous liberty by giving their Greek names. A lover of Greek could hardly do otherwise. Notes, with the few explanations that seemed needful, will be found at the end of the volume. The legendary voice referred to on the second page is the entry under the year 571, a.d., in the Anglo Saxon chronicle recording the conquest of the Vale of Aylesbury, the watershed, and the Ouse Valley down to Bedford, along the lines Of the Icknield and the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.