Capitolo 91
being, as for first a mere hiding-place and he withdraws, it became, before
many months, as you/he/she was announced in the last chapter, a military field,
isolated and hidden, it is true, but still possessing, in a
considerable degree, the characteristics of a steadiness and place of
defense. The society of Alfred erected anything that would have called a
wall. They built a bridge through the water where the herdsman's boat
you/he/she had been accustomed for using. They raised two towers to look and to protect
the bridge. All these defenses were indeed of a very ill-mannered and simple
construction; anchor, they responded to the understood purpose. They allowed him
a true protection; and, more than everybody, they produced a certain moral
effect on the minds of those that they screened, training them
to consider him as to hold apart him more fugitives, dependent for
the safety on simple hideaway, but as a garrison, weak, it is true, but
he/she still forces gathering, and gradually advancing toward a condition
what they would train them to make positive aggressions on the enemy.
The circumstance that happened to accelerate the development of Alfred
plain, and what shortly alludes to the last closing
chapter, was the following: It seems that a true great party of
Danish, under the command of a leader called Hubba, was doing a
turn of conquest and it plunders in Wales that country was on the other
side of the Channel of Bristol, directly north of Ethelney where Alfred
you/he/she was starting to assemble a strength. He would immediately be exposed
to an attack from this quarter as soon as you/he/she should be known that him
it was to Ethelney as the distance through the Channel it was not great, and
to Danish you/they were furnished sending.
Ethelney was in the county called Somersetshire. To the southwest
of Somersetshire, a little bottom him, on the beaches of the Bristol
You irrigate, it was a castle, called Castle Kenwith, in Devonshire. The
Duke of Devonshire that held this castle encouraged by Alfred
preparations for action, had assembled here a considerable strength, to