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Life of Alfred the Great

by Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, translated by J. A. Giles.

A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some scholars contend that the work was actually composed much later by an unknown hand. (Summary by Douglas B. Killings)

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Total running time: 2:17:11
Read by R. S. Steinberg

mp3 and ogg files

• 01 - Introduction - 00:02:45
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.2MB]
• 02 - Part I, section 1 - 00:20:00
  [mp3@64kbps - 9.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 19.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 10.6MB]
• 03 - Part I, Section 2 - 00:22:56
  [mp3@64kbps - 11.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 22.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 12.2MB]
• 04 - Part I, Section 3 - 00:25:09
  [mp3@64kbps - 12.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 24.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 13.8MB]
• 05 - Part II, Section 1 - 00:22:15
  [mp3@64kbps - 10.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 21.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 11.8MB]
• 06 - Part II, Section 2 - 00:21:15
  [mp3@64kbps - 10.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 20.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 11.1MB]
• 07 - Part II, Section 3 - 00:22:51
  [mp3@64kbps - 10.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 21.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 12.2MB]

Cataloged on May 23, 2008