• The Alfred Saxons are composed of 21 teams representing Alfred University in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's alpine skiing, basketball...
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  • and 1180 or an ACT score between 20 and 27. Alfred University's athletic teams became known as The Saxons in 1929, but did not institute an official mascot...
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    Alfred the Great (Old English: Ælfrǣd [ˈæɫvˌræːd]; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons...
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    The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now...
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    Wessex (redirect from West Saxons)
    the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great...
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  • Look up Saxon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Saxons were a Germanic people during the Early Middle Ages, related to the Anglo-Saxons. Saxon may also...
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    'Anglo-Saxon' came into use in the 8th century (probably by Paul the Deacon) to distinguish English Saxons from continental Saxons (Ealdseaxan, 'old' Saxons)...
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    Edward the Elder (category Anglo-Saxon monarchs)
    daughter Æthelflæd, and around 886 Alfred adopted the new title King of the Anglo-Saxons as the ruler of all Anglo-Saxons not subject to Danish rule. Edward...
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  • foreign menace in the form of the Danes in The Saxon Stories and the Saxons in The Warlord Chronicles. Alfred also resembles Arthur in his mission as the...
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    and Alfred brought up the main West Saxon army and joined Æthelwulf's forces for an attack on the Danes in the Battle of Reading. The West Saxons fought...
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    Bede, the term "Old Saxons" began to be used to distinguish the Saxons who were neighbours of the Franks in Europe, from the Saxons of Britain.) Jutland...
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  • The 1971 Alfred Saxons football team was an American football team that represented Alfred University as a member of the Independent College Athletic...
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  • Rashaan Jordan (category Alfred Saxons football players)
    held since 2024. He also coached for Alfred, Buffalo, Cornell, and Brockport. He played college football for Alfred as a halfback. "Wingate University Appoints...
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    The 1955 Alfred Saxons football team was an American football team that represented Alfred University of Alfred, New York, as an independent during the...
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    "Saxons Drub St. Lawrence In 44-14 Fray". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. October 14, 1956. p. 12D – via Newspapers.com. "Alfred's Unbeaten Saxons Meet...
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  • of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons Mount Alfred (Antarctica) Alfredtown, New South Wales County of Alfred, South Australia Alfred and Plantagenet...
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  • The 1961 Alfred Saxons football team was an American football team that represented Alfred University as an independent during the 1961 college football...
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  • the Early West Saxon of Alfred the Great's time, and the Late West Saxon of the late 10th and 11th centuries. Due to the Saxons' establishment as a politically...
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    Denmark, who are now referred to as "Anglo-Saxons". Rather than continuing Romano-British culture, Anglo-Saxons introduced their own building styles, pottery...
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    2°26′27″W / 51.374687°N 2.440724°W / 51.374687; -2.440724 The Alfred Jewel is a piece of Anglo-Saxon goldsmithing work made of enamel and quartz enclosed in...
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  • it is Saxons who come over to fight the Picts and settle, whereas Bede, HE.Book 1 Ch 15 suggests that it is Angles or Saxons. Welch.Anglo-Saxon England...
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  • Asser (redirect from Life of King Alfred)
    Brandons. South Saxons. Ch. IV. p. 71 Asser tells the story of his recruitment in chapter 79 of his Life of King Alfred (Keynes & Lapidge, Alfred the Great...
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  • nighttime attack on Alfred and his court at Chippenham. It being an important feast day in the Christian liturgical year, the Saxons were presumably taken...
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  • King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons is a 2013 documentary in three parts written and presented by Michael Wood. Janet Nelson Helena Hamerow Rory Naismith...
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    of Egbert's Stone, where it is believed that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Anglo-Saxons in 878 before the Battle of Edington. The tower...
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    This is a list of monarchs of the Kingdom of the West Saxons (Wessex) until 886 AD. For later monarchs, see the List of English monarchs. While the details...
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  • Tony Trisciani (category Alfred Saxons football coaches)
    noted) 1996–1997 Springfield (MA) (GA) 1998–1999 New Hampshire (RB) 2000 Alfred (OC/QB/WR) 2001–2004 New Hampshire (DB) 2005 Lehigh (LB) 2006 Elon (DB/ST)...
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  • Ealhswith (category Alfred the Great)
    the title of queen. According to King Alfred, this was due to a crime committed by a former queen of the West Saxons, Eadburh, who had attempted to poison...
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    The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle...
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    Æthelstan (category Anglo-Saxon monarchs)
    of Alfred the Great used the title King of the West Saxons. In the 880s Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, accepted West Saxon lordship, and Alfred then...
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