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It was January of 878. The dead of British winter \\u2013 and Alfred was running. Through fields, past hamlets, keeping out of sight whenever he could. He ran. He headed for the Somerset Levels. This was a coastal plane during the 9th century \\u2013 a dense network of impassable marshes. It wasn\\u2019t ideal, but at [\\u2026]

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