Capitolo 62
the till now as the severe one and the faithful observance of religious forms
it pertained to. There was, a particular reason is true in this case
because the forms of divine service should be you faithfully observe, and
or, what the war was considered in a great measure a religious
war. Danish were pagan. The Saxons both Cristiano. In to do
their attacks on the dominoes of Ethelred, the merciless invaders
it was animate from a special hate of the name of Christ and them
shown a special hostility toward every building or institution, or
observance that annoyed the Christian name. The Saxons, therefore in
withstanding them to, felt for which them they was not only fighting really
possessions and for their his/her own lives, but that they was defending
God's kingdom, and that him, bewaring down of his/her throne in
the skies, considered them the champions of its cause; and,
accordingly, that him or it would protect them in the struggle, or,
if theirs fell, that he would receive them to mansions of special glory
and the happiness in sky as martyrs that had shed their blood in his
service and for his/her glory.
Taking this perspective of the subject, Ethelred, instead of going out to
fights to the first dawn, picked up his/her officers in his/her curtain, and
them formats in a religious congregation. Alfred, on the other hand,
full of the impetuosity and ardor, were waking up again its men animating them from,
his/her words of encouragement and from the influence of his/her example, and
doing, the more emphatically possible all the preparations necessary
for the conflict that approaches.
In fact, Alfred, although his/her brother was king and him him only a
general lieutenant under him, had been accustomed to assume the direction him in
all the military operations of the army, on account of the superior
energy, decision and touch that he showed, also in this first
period of his/her life. His/her brothers, although they held back the scepter, as
it subsequently fell in their hands, it mainly counted on his/her wisdom and