Capitolo 65
what the ruins of an ancient monument there are here, what, tradition
it says, it was a monument he/she built to commemorate the death of a Danish
head of a tribe killed here by Alfred. There is also in the district
another very unusual monument, called The White Horse that also
it has the reputation of has been shaped for commemorating Alfred
victories. The White Horse is an ill-mannered representation of a horse, you/he/she formed
cutting away the grassy carpet from the steep slant of a hill, as to
shows under a portion of the white surface of the chalky stone of this way
a form that the figure has called a horse, although theirs who you/they see him/it seem
to think was able well it as a dog you/he/she has been called. The name, however,
of White _The Horse_ has come down with him from ancient durations, and
the hill on which is cut it is known as her Equine Hill and Bianca. Some
clever antiquarianses think that they finds the evidence that this gigantic
profile was made for commemorating the victory gotten by Alfred and
Ethelred on Danish to the ancient AEscesdune.
However this can be, and whatever sight that we can take of the comparative ones
the influence of the energetic action of Alfred and the religious faith of Ethelred
in the defeat of Danish to this great battle, it is sure that
his results were very serious to all pertained to ones. Ethelred
received a wound, or in this battle or in some of the smallest
disputes and collisions that followed him/it, under the effects of what
he languished and it lingered for of the months, and then it died. Alfred, from his
decision and the courage in the day of the battle, and from the ardor and
decision with which he pressed all the subsequent operations during
the period of the rebate of Ethelred, it sticks it did him more evident
in the eyes of his/her farmers that him you/he/she had ever been before. In to look
directly to died Ethelred, the people, are approaching accordingly himself/herself/itself,
started to address their eyes to Alfred as his/her successor. There was