Alfred the Great

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Bones exhumed from unmarked grave at ‘Alfred the Great’ church

View across the river Clyde to Dumbarton Rock and the medieval Dumbarton Castle. (Photo by Martin W Holt via Getty Images)

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A memorial tomb to King Æthelstan, in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. (Photo by Geography Photos/UIG via Getty Images)

If King Alfred was great, was Æthelstan even greater?

ilver penny of King Alfred

The real Alfred the Great