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The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great

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The unlikely king who saved England.

Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Around the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all of their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe.

Then, when the hour was once most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and after decades of plotting, praying, and persisting, after all triumphed over the invaders.

Alfred’s victory reverberates to at the moment: He sparked a literary renaissance, restructured Britain’s roadways, revised the legal codes, and revived Christian learning and worship. It was once Alfred’s accomplishments that laid the groundwork for Britian’s later glories and triumphs in literature, liturgy, and liberty.

“Ben Merkle tells one of these mythic adventure story that stirs the imagination and races the center?and all of the more so knowing that it’s altogether true!” ?George Grant, creator of The Last Crusader and The Blood of the Moon

 

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