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Line 6: :<small>All quotations in Modern English are cited from [[w:Simon Keynes\|Simon Keynes]] and Michael Lapidge (trans.) ''Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources'' (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983), to which page-numbers also refer.</small> * ''Þæt is nunū hraðost to ~~secganne,~~seċġenne þæt iciċ wilnode ~~weorðfullice~~weorðfullīċe to ~~libbanne~~libbenne þaþā ~~hwile~~hwīle þe iciċ ~~lifede~~lifde, and æfter ~~minum~~mīnum ~~life~~līfe ~~þæm~~þām ~~monnum~~mannum totō ~~læfanne~~lǣfanne þe æfter memē ~~wæren~~wǣren ~~min~~mīn ~~gemyndig~~ġemynd on ~~godum~~gōdum weorcum.'' '''In short, I ~~desired~~wanted to [[Life\|live]] [[~~Worth~~Honor\|~~worthily~~honorably]] as long as I lived, and to leave ~~after my [[life]]~~behind, tofor the ~~[[men]]~~people who ~~should~~would come after me, the [[memory]] of me in ~~[[Goodness\|~~good]] works.''' * In his translation of [[Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius\|Boethius]]' ''[[w:Consolation of Philosophy\|Consolation of Philosophy]]'', ch. 17, p. 133. Line 121: * [http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/prose/laws.html ''Laws of Alfred and Ine'' (Original with preface, without translation)] [[Category:~~English~~Monarchs ~~monarchs~~from England]] [[Category:Military leaders]] [[Category:Translators from England]] [[Category:Designers]] [[Category:9th century births]] [[Category:~~9th century~~890s deaths]]