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They think they’ve found Alfred the Great. What about his mother?
A researcher claims to have found Alfred the Great’s grave under a Winchester car park. Novelist Karen Lewis on Osburh, the mother history left out.
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Osburh, Mother of Alfred the Great: Why I wrote The Garnet Inheritance
A historical novel about Osburh, mother of Alfred the Great and daughter of the Jutish line on the Isle of Wight. Author Karen Lewis on writing Anglo-Saxon Wessex.