Alfred the Great. Herald of truth, creator of England

The Anglo-Saxon King Alfred the Great (c. 849-Oct. 899) played a fiddle role in the history of England. His personality is so unusual for his time that not only the British paid tribute to him. In particular, N.V. Gogol in his youth wrote the play “Alfred the Great”. Alfred the Great lived in a turning point for England, when the country, torn by internecine straightforwardness, was flooded with the invaders of the Vikings. In the battle, not for life, but at death, Alfred headed his compatriots and won a convincing victory. He reorganized the English army, created a fleet, administration, subordinated his power to the small British tsarks, founding the first royal dynasty that ruled all of England. A man of extraordinary cruelty, he never hesitated before the use of force and ruthlessly punished everyone who became in his path. But this is only one side of Alfred's life. The king appreciated literary works, Latin culture, he himself translated the works of Roman writers Boetius and orosia into the ancient English. The book of the English researcher B. A. Lee is full of colorful details previously inaccessible to the Russian reader.