Crossword-Solution: ATHELNEY 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

And they acted accordingly; for in the course of three weeks after, King Guthrum, attended by some thirty of the worthiest men that were in the army, came to him at Aller, which is near Athelney, and there the king became his sponsor in baptism; and his crisom-leasing was at Wedmor.

Both mother and I were greatly hurt at hearing of this insolence: for we had owned that meadow, from the time of the great Alfred; and even when that good king lay in the Isle of Athelney, he had a Ridd along with him.

This island became henceforth the most constant place of his encampment; a secure retreat, a depot for his arms and ammunition; and, under similar pressures, a second _Athelney_, from which he might sally out upon the modern, but no less ferocious plunderers than their ancestors, the Danes.

John, of Old-Saxony, a learned monk of the flourishing Westphalian Abbey of Corvey--where a library existed in this century,[79]--was made by Alfred abbot of Athelney monastery and school.

For Athelney, a small monastery, Alfred had difficulty in finding monks at all: he had to get them from abroad; while the rule in this house does not seem to have been wholly satisfactory.