King of the Anglo Saxons

Born the youngest of six children to Ethelwulf of Wessex and his wife Osburga, Alfred was never meant or expected to be King of Wessex, the greatest of the English Kingdoms of the time. Through battle and sickness Alfred was thrust into the Kingship as a young man suffering with Ulcerative Colitis and facing down the Great Heathen Army, the largest Viking army ever assembled up to that time by the grandsons of Ragnar Lothbrok, hell bent on taking all of England.Faced with such dangers Alfred nearly faltered, but his faith in God, his people, and his elder brother Edwulf helped him pull through.In this biography, created through using both documents close to the time period such as the Anglo Saxon Chronicles, Asser's biography of the King, and retrocognition, the ability to see the past through dreams, I tell Alfred's life story from his time in Rome as a boy to the great Battle of Ethandune where England's fate was decided.