Alfredian

English Alternative forms en Ælfredian Etymology From en Alfred ian. Adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of Alfred the Great or the period of his reign. en Alfred the Great Supplement to the Courant XV 5 Hartford 2 March 1850 33 The division of the whole country into counties, the trial by jury, the establishment of county courts and the creation of justices of the peace, are all Alfredian institutions. en Paul E. Szarmach Introduction Studies in Earlier Old English Prose State University of New York Press 1986 2 9780873959476 The term “Alfredian” then is not univocal; it can mean, depending on the argument, anything from Alfred setting down words by himself, to Alfred working with a little or a lot of help in writing or dictating, or to Alfred authorizing another or others to act in his name with degrees of his personal involvement varying from much to nil.Part II contains essays on works that almost all scholars would now agree have no particular connection with Alfredian prose. Whereas Alfredian prose—a phrase used here in the traditionalist sense—has a certain identifiable core that appears programmatic, viz., translations of the Christian classics, the prose outside of Alfred’s circle is somewhat more heterogeneous. en David Pratt The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great w:Cambridge University Press 2007 41 9781139463553 Both Grimbald and John the Old Saxon recall the earlier role of Felix, yet it is important to acknowledge the ingredients which made Alfredian ‘capital’ novel and distinctive. First, in a significant broadening of horizons beyond the Carolingian world, Alfredian cultural exchanges were consciously cosmopolitan, drawing on sources as diverse as Elias, patriarch of Jerusalem, who sent the king medicines; and the Norwegian merchant Ottar, who gave tusks of walrus-ivory, probably in return for protection. en Thomas A. Bredehoft The Date of Composition of Beowulf and the Evidence of Metrical Evolution w:Leonard Neidorf The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment D. S. Brewer 2014 102–103 978-1-84384-387-0 Old Saxon influence is variously lexical, formulaic, and metrical, and it affects, in different ways, most of the identifiably Alfredian poems (excepting only the Metrical Epilogue to the Pastoral Care, really).