This ruler built a network of burhs and created the fyrd system in order to repel Viking attacks.
This ruler built a network of burhs and created the fyrd system in order to repel Viking attacks. Bishop Asser served as the biographer of this ruler, who won the Battles of Ashdown and Chippenham. He collected his law code in the Doom Book, and he signed the Treaty of Wedmore, which established the borders of the (*) Danelaw. At the Battle of Eddington, this ruler defeated the Danes under Guthrum, and he translated Latin works such as Consolation of Philosophy into English. For ten points, identify this English king of Wessex, the only English king to earn the epithet "the Great."
This ruler built a network of burhs and created the fyrd system in order to repel Viking attacks.
{Alfred the Great} (or {Alfred I}; prompt on “Alfred”)