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CHAPTER V.
THE DANES AND ALFRED THE GREAT.
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ALFRED THE GREAT.
1. It was nearly 380 years after the first Saxons came here with their two pirate chiefs, Hengist and Horsa, that England began to have only one king.
2. There were still some other princes, who bore that title, but they had so little power, that
