 | John Allen Giles - 1863 - 416 pages
...Athelney, and there king Alfred, receiving him as his son by adoption, raised him up from the holy laver of baptism on the eighth day, at a royal villa...give hostages, and bind themselves by oath. Their king submits to be baptized, and Alfred the king receives him from the laver in the marshy isle of... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1872 - 554 pages
...Athelney, and there king Alfred, receiving him as his son by adoption, raised him up from the holy laver of baptism on the eighth day, at a royal villa...named Wedmore,* where the holy chrism was poured upon him.f After his baptism he remained twelve nights with the king, who, with all his nobles, gave him... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 650 pages
...Athelney, and there king Alfred, receiving him as his son by adoption, raised him up from the holy laver of baptism on the eighth day, at a royal villa...king, who, with all his nobles, gave him many fine houses. (Asser's Annals of the Reign of Alfredthe Great, ed. JA (liles, in Six Old English Chronicles,... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 642 pages
...Athelney, and there king Alfred, receiving him as his son by adoption, raised him up from the holy laver of baptism on the eighth day, at a royal villa...king, who, with all his nobles, gave him many fine houses. (Asser's An1utls of the Reign of Alfred the Great, ed. JA Giles, in Six Old English Chronicles,... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 652 pages
...Athelney, and there king Alfred, receiving him as his son by adoption, raised him up from the holy laver of baptism on the eighth day, at a royal villa named Wedmorc, where the holy chrism was poured upon him. After his baptism he remained twelve nights with... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1901 - 218 pages
...Athelney, and there King Alfred, receiving him as his son by adoption, raised him up from the holy laver of Baptism on the eighth day, at a royal villa...king, who, with all his nobles, gave him many fine houses." It is, therefore, certain that Alfred was complete master of the situation. Had he chosen,... | |
 | Sir Walter Besant - 1901 - 210 pages
...Athelney, and there King Alfred, receiving him as his son by adoption, raised him up from the holy laver of Baptism on the eighth day, at a royal villa...the king, who, with all his nobles, gave him many tine houses." It is, therefore, certain that Alfred was complete master of the situation. Had he chosen,... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1905 - 200 pages
...Athelney, and there King Alfred, receiving him as his son hy adoption, raised him up from the holy laver of Baptism on the eighth day, at a royal villa named Weclmore, where the holy chrism was poured upon him. After his Baptism he remained twelve nights with... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 pages
...Athelney, and there King Alfred, receiving him as his son by adoption, raised him up from the holy laver of baptism on the eighth day, at a royal villa...king, who, with all his nobles, gave him many fine houses. . . . In the meantime, the king, during the frequent wars and other interruptions of this present... | |
 | Karen Louise Jolly - 1997 - 588 pages
...Athelney, and there king Alfred, receiving him as his son by adoption, raised him up from the holy laver of baptism on the eighth day, at a royal villa...king, who, with all his nobles, gave him many fine houses. From Source-Book of English History, ed. Guy Carleton Lee (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1906),... | |
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Alre, near Athelney, and there king Alfred, receiving him as his son by adoption, raised him up from the holy laver of baptism on the eighth day, at a royal villa named Wedmore, where the holy chrism was poured upon him. After his baptism he remained... 
