Asser's Life of King Alfred

by John Asser

[158] Louis the German.

[159] Louis the Pious.

[160] Mainly from the Chronicle.

[161] From the Chronicle.

[162] Based upon the preface to Eginhard’s Life of Charlemagne.

[163] See chap. 21.

[164] Original.

[165] Perhaps the hemorrhoids.

[166] Interpolated some time between 893 and 1000 A.D.

[167] In Alfred’s prayer at the end of his translation of Boethius, one of the petitions is: ‘Deliver me from foul lust and from all unrighteousness.’