Alfred the Great
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Alfred the Great
(late 9th century)
King Alfred of Wessex’s Anglo-Saxon version of the compendious history of the world by Orosius.
Anglo-Saxon.
Then, from this source [the Red Sea], the water is called the River Nile. Running thence onward to the west it separates into two, about an island which is called Meroe; and thence bending northwards, flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
Selected edition
Monumenta Cartographica Africae et Aegypti. Tome III.I, ed. Y. Kamel (Leiden: 1930).
