Directory of Alfredian Prose Resources

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King Alfred the Great (849-899) wrote or dictated several prose works, and other works were attributed to him, written at his direction, or inspired by him. This collective body of works is known as Alfredian prose.

Resources in This Category

• Alfred

  http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/alfred.html
  Article on Alfred's life and achievements from the Columbia Encyclopedia

• Alfred and the Old English Prose of His Reign

  http://www.bartleby.com/211/0601.html
  Provides historical and literary analysis of Alfred's works and sums up his literary achievement.

• Alfred the Great

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01309d.htm
  Article on Alfred's life and historical significance from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

• Alfred. Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy

  http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Boethius_Fox.pdf
  Modern English translation by Samuel Fox, with introduction and notes.

• Alfred. Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy:

  http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/ENG720/SdgTrans/SedgefieldTranslation.htm
  Modern English translation by Walter Sedgefield

• Alfred. Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy: It Is Better to Suffer an Injury than to Inflict One

  http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bright's_Anglo-Saxon_Reader/It_is_better_to_suffer_an_Injury_than_to_inflict_one
  Excerpt from the Old English text.

• Alfred. Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy: Orpheus and Eurydice

  http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bright's_Anglo-Saxon_Reader/Orpheus_and_Eurydice
  Excerpt from the Old English text.

• Alfred. Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy: Providence and Fate

  http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bright's_Anglo-Saxon_Reader/Providence_and_Fate
  Excerpt from the Old English text.

• Alfred. Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy: The Nature of God

  http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bright's_Anglo-Saxon_Reader/The_Nature_of_God
  Excerpt from the Old English text.

• Alfred. Old English version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies.

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40341
  Modern English translation by Henry Lee Hargrove.

• Alfred. Preface to His Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care

  http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/english/courses/engl440/pastoral.shtml
  Includes an edition of the Old English text, a modern English translation, and links to the Old English and Latin manuscripts.

• Alfred. Preface to His Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/texts/alfdfram.htm
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary. At the University of Calgary.

• Alfred. Preface to His Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care

  http://www.bible-researcher.com/alfred.html
  Old English text with facing Modern English translation.

• Alfred. Prologue to the Laws of King Alfred

  https://sites.google.com/site/miscelleneatheologica/home/aelfredlaw
  Modern English translation by Jonathan Hall.

• Alfred. Prologue to the Laws of King Alfred

  https://sites.google.com/site/miscelleneatheologica/home/aelfredlawoe
  Old English text.

• Alfred. Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care

  http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bright's_Anglo-Saxon_Reader/From_the_Pastoral_Care
  Excerpts from the Old English text.

• Alfred. Translation of Orosius's Compendious History: the Amazons

  http://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/hel/orosius.html
  Excerpt from Alfred's Old English translation of the Latin text.

• Alfred. Translation of Orosius's Compendious History: the Voyage of Ohthere

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/texts/ohthfram.htm
  Excerpt from Alfred's Old English translation of the Latin text. Each word is hot-linked to a glossary entry. Includes a facing modern English translation of part of the text.

• Alfred. Translation of Orosius's Compendious History: the Voyage of Wulfstan .

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Wulfstanfram.html
  Excerpt from Alfred's Old English translation of the Latin text. Each word is hot-linked to a corresponding glossary entry.

• Alfred. Translation of Orosius's Compendious History: the Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan

  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31172/31172-h/31172-h.htm#c47
  Modern English translation by Stith Thompson and Cosette Faust.

• Asser. Life of King Alfred

  http://omacl.org/KingAlfred/
  J. A. Giles's modern English translation of Asser's Latin text, which is the main source of knowledge about Alfred's life. Asser was a contemporary of Alfred.

• Life of Alfred the Great

  http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/athlifea.htm
  Lengthy biography produced by the magazine Orthodox England. Gives a detailed account of Alfred's life and achievements.

 

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