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while the exhausted one and the wounded were drowned. The fleet sailed
away from the coast and the Saxons, on to observe the scene of the
terrible dispute, appraised that there were twelve one hundred dead bodies
lying in the field.
This victory, and the capture of the imperial Crow, especially produced enormous
effects on the minds both of the Saxons and of Danish, animating
and encouraging that, and depressing the other with superstitious
as the natural and correct fears. The influence of the battle was
enough, in fact, completely to change the position of Alfred and perspectives.
The news of the discovery of the place of his/her retreat, and of the
measures that he was maturing for taking again the field to satisfy his
hostile, shed in the whole country. The people were every where
ready to take on arm and to connect him/it. There were the great bodies of Danish
in a lot of parts of his/her dominoes anchor and they, alarmed rather to
these indications of new efforts of resistance from them
hostile, it started to assemble their strength and to prepare for another
struggle.
The principal body of Danish was camped to a called place Edendune,
in Wiltshire. There is a near hill, what the army made them principal
positions, and the marks of their fortifications have been traced
there, or in the imagination or the reality, in the modern durations. Alfred
desired to earn information more precise and accurate than him he/she anchors
possessed of the numbers and situation of his/her enemies; and, in order to
does this, instead of hiring a spy he conceived the sketch to go
him disguised to explore the field of Danish. The enterprise
it was full of danger, but he/she anchors not rather so desperate as for first him
it would seem. Alfred had had the abundant opportunities during the months
of his/her isolation for to become family with the ways of discourse and the
manners of the life of farmer. He also had, in his/her first years, it stored his
memory with Saxon poetry, as you/he/she has already been affirmed. He was affectionate of
also, music and specialized good in him; this way that he had every qualification