The Stockholm Codex Aureus, an Eighth-Century Anglo-Saxon Manuscript. The handwriting, added later during the Viking Age, reads “I, Ealdorman Alfred and Wærburh my wife obtained these books from the heathen army…. for the love of God and for the benefit of our souls.” [1977 x 2411]

The Stockholm Codex Aureus, an Eighth-Century Anglo-Saxon Manuscript. The handwriting, added later during the Viking Age, reads “I, Ealdorman Alfred and Wærburh my wife obtained these books from the heathen army…. for the love of God and for the benefit of our souls.” [1977 x 2411]

by Seniorince