that he be alive,
and wunnie in Aualun,
and dwelling in Avalon,
mid fairest alre aluen:
with the fairest of all elves;
and lokieth euere Bruttes ȝete,
still look the Britons for the day
whan Arthur cume lithen.
of Arthur’s coming o’er the sea.
All this history was known to Alfred and went to swell the stream of his meditations, which tended to assure him that he had a fresh and promising field before him, and to mature in him the purpose of exerting himself to win the hearty attachment of this well-affected but still half alien population.