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Encyclopedia Britannica



ATHELNEY

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 828 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ATHELNEY , a slight
eminence
  of small extent in the low level
tract
  about the junction of the rivers
Tone
  and Parrett in Somersetshire, England. It was formerly isolated by marshes and accessible only by boat or artificial causeway, and under these conditions it gained its historical fame as the
retreat
  of King Alfred in 878879 when he was unable to withstand the incursions of the Danes. After regaining his
throne
  he founded a monastery here in gratitude for the
retreat
  afforded him by the
island
 ; no traces of it exist above ground, but remains have been excavated. There was also found here, in 1693, the celebrated Alfred
jewel
 , bearing his name, and preserved in the Ashmolean Museum.at
Oxford
 . An inscribed pillar commemorating the king was set up in 18ox. The name of Athelney signifies the Isle of Princes (A.S. 2Ethelingaea). Athelney is a railway station on a branch of the
Great
  Western line.


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