Alfred The Great
Imagine yourself with your ten friends in a corner of the playground that only you are allowed on because you guys are a popular gang that nobody likes to hang around, but then some of bigger kids start fighting with your friends. Now you are the leader of the gang and you have to take action. Your friends join you when you start throwing punches. After a little while, you beat them up that they run. Then you shout to them to never come back. This is how Alfred the Great held his land from the Vikings. The Vikings arrived and started fighting with some towns. Then Alfred the Great took action and pushed them out of his land. Then he made them made them sign a treaty to never return. This is like how you shouted to never return.
He defeated the Vikings in 878 and made them sign the Treaty of Wedmore which was a treaty where the Vikings became Christians and Guthrum, the Vikings’ leader was to be Alfred’s adoptive son. One important date is in 871 when he was crowned king of Wessex. Another important date is that in 878, Alfred the Great defeated the Vikings. He started fighting the Vikings in 877 and in the course of a year, he defeated the Vikings. In 899, he died in Winchester, England.
Alfred the Great was a lawmaker, scholar, and a king. He encouraged education because he hadn’t had a proper education. In fact, he didn’t even learn to read and write until after he was king!
Alfred the Great was indeed great because he saved the kingdom from enemy invaders. He had quite a lifetime. He also was a very good king and helped education grow. He was a good fighter and leader, but he was a good educator. Alfred’s influence still works today, because several schools and libraries where named after him.
Quennell, Marjorie, and C. H. B. Quennell. "Alfred the Great." Everyday Life in Roman and Anglo-Saxon times. New York: Dorset, 1987. 180-86. Print
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