While hiding from enemy forces, this ruler apocryphally took refuge in an old peasant woman's house and let the griddle cakes burn under his watch.
This ruler fought alongside his father at the Battle of Reading, where they suffered a defeat at the hands of forces under Halfdan Ragnarsson. While hiding from enemy forces, this ruler apocryphally took refuge in an old peasant woman's house and let the griddle cakes burn under his watch. This ruler commissioned the Welsh monk Asser to write his biography. A code of law known as the Doom Book was compiled by this ruler. This ruler defeated Guthrum, leader of the "Great Heathen Army," at the Battle of Edington, after which the Treaty of Wedmore was signed. For 10 points, name this Anglo-Saxon king of Wessex, the only English king with the title "the Great."
This ruler fought alongside his father at the Battle of Reading, where they suffered a defeat at the hands of forces under Halfdan Ragnarsson.
Alfred the Great [prompt on Alfred]