King Alfred the Great burns the cakes and is rebuked by the peasant woman who had given him shelter without knowing who he was. Alfred the Great, 848/9 - 899, king of the Anglo-Saxons. Engraving from The New, Impartial and Complete History of England by Edward Barnard, published in London 1783.
King Alfred the Great burns the cakes and is rebuked by the peasant woman who had given him shelter without knowing who he was. Alfred the Great, 848/9 - 899, king of the Anglo-Saxons. Engraving from The New, Impartial and Complete History of England by Edward Barnard, published in London 1783.
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