Farnham, Surrey, Edward defeats the Danes at, 114.
Felix, Frankish secretary of Æthelwulf, Lupus of Ferrières corresponds
with, 17, 18 _n._;
previously at Faremoûtier, 17, 18 _n._
Fernmail, son of Mouric, joint king of Gwent, submits to Alfred, 42, 44.
Ferrières, dép. Loiret, abbot of, _see_ Lupus.
Florence of Worcester, relation of, to Asser, 15, 22, 23, 25, 28, 34,
49, 60, 64;
his panegyric on Alfred, 12, 60, 197.
France, king of, _see_ Louis, St.
Francia, term applied to the Carolingian Empire, 41.
Frankish element in Asser, 17, 18.
Franks, kings of, _see_ Carloman, Charles the Great, Charles the Bald,
Charles the Fat, Clovis, Louis the Stammerer, Louis of Northern
France;
Felix, a Frank, 18 _n._
Frisia, wiking settlements in, 119, 120.
Frisians, serve in Alfred’s navy, 119;
and in that of Charles the Great, 120 _n._;
language of, akin to English, 119 _n._;
settle in England, 120.
Fulham, Middlesex, Danes evacuate, 104.
Fulk, abp. of Rheims, letter of, to Abp. Plegmund, 128;
doubtful letter of, to Alfred, 138-9;
abbot of St. Bertin’s, 137-8;
murder of, 138 _n._
Fyrd, the native militia of the English, reorganised by Alfred, 110.
Galli, term applied to inhabitants of the Western Kingdom, 41.
Gallia, term applied to the Western Kingdom, 41.
George III, king of England, influence of character of, 211.
Germania, name given by Welsh writers to Norway, 40, 41;
Bede’s and Alfred’s uses of the term, 40 _n._, 160.
Glastonbury, Somerset, St. Neot said to have been a monk at, 56;
Alfred gives fragment of the True Cross to, 58 _n._
Glewissig, South Welsh kingdom, including the district between lower Usk
and Towy, 44;
king of, _see_ Howel.
Gloucester, Mercian Witenagemót held at, 13;
St. Oswald’s body translated to, 35.
Gregory the Great, Pope, soul of Trajan granted to prayers of, 209;
his Moralia used by Alfred, 191;
his Dialogues, 8, 143-4;
used by Alfred in the ‘Blostman,’ 143-4;
Bede’s style influenced by, 170 _n._;
Anglo-Saxon translation of, 8, 141, 171;
two recensions of, 145-6, 169;
mentioned in Asser, 52, 141;
cited by Ælfric, 167;
ascribed to Werferth, 142, 169;
Alfred writes the preface to, 142-3;
relation of, to Bede translation, 169, 170;
his Pastoral Care, 8, 151-2;
cited in Asser, 52;
Alfred’s translation of, 8, 10, 152-5;
Preface to, 11, 20, 52, 136, 139, 140, 143, 193, 196, 199.
Grimbald, a monk of St. Bertin’s, 137;
brought to England by Alfred, 17, 137;
said to have been escorted to England by Asser, 18, 139;
chronology of his life, 137-8;
letter of Fulk of Rheims respecting, 138-9;
made abbot of the New Minster, 139;
dies, 139;
helps Alfred with the Pastoral Care, 137, 143 _n._