Alfred the Great was king of Wessex from 871 to 899. He successfully kept the Viking form conquering. Folklore told of one occasion when Alfred is running from the Vikings and he enters a peasant woman's home as a place of refuge. Neatherd is a name used in the past to refer to peasants and herdsmen. She ask him to watch her small loaves of bread that are cooking by her fire. Consumed by his problems, he forgets and the breads burn. The peasant woman then really scolds him, as seen here in this drawing by Edawrd Dalziel.
Alfred the Great was king of Wessex from 871 to 899. He successfully kept the Viking form conquering. Folklore told of one occasion when Alfred is running from the Vikings and he enters a peasant woman's home as a place of refuge. Neatherd is a name used in the past to refer to peasants and herdsmen. She ask him to watch her small loaves of bread that are cooking by her fire. Consumed by his problems, he forgets and the breads burn. The peasant woman then really scolds him, as seen here in this drawing by Edward Dalziel that accompanied Charles Dickens' account of the tale in his book "A Child's History of England."
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