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1. Alfred’s Birth and Genealogy 1
2. Genealogy of Alfred’s Mother 2
3. The Danes at Wicganbeorg and Sheppey 3
4. The Danes sack Canterbury 3
5. Battle of Aclea 4
6. Defeat of the Danes at Sandwich 4
7. Æthelwulf assists Burgred 4
8. Alfred at Rome 5
9. Other Events of 853 5
10. The Heathen winter in Sheppey 6
11. Æthelwulf journeys to Rome 6
12. Rebellion of Æthelbald 6
13. Judith’s Position in Wessex 7
14. Offa and Eadburh 8
15. Eadburh’s Further Life 9
16. Æthelwulf’s Will 10
17. Æthelbald marries Judith 11
18. Æthelbert’s Reign 12
19. Æthelbert’s Death 12
20. The Danes in Kent 12
21. Æthelred’s Accession 13
22. Alfred’s Rearing 13
23. Alfred and the Book of Saxon Poems 14
24. Alfred’s Handbook 14
25. Alfred’s Love of Learning 15
26. The Danes occupy York 16
27. Defeat of the Northumbrians 16
28. Death of Ealhstan 17
29. Alfred marries 17
30. The Danes at Nottingham 17
31. The Danes at York 18
32. The Danes at Thetford 18
33. The Danes triumph 18
34. Ceolnoth dies 18
35. The Danes defeated at Englefield 19
36. Battle of Reading 19
37. Battle of Ashdown 20
38. Alfred begins the Attack 20
39. The Heathen Rout and Loss 21
40. Battle of Basing 22
41. Æthelred’s Death 22

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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