King Alfred and the ‘grumbling Romans’: purposes and audience of the Old English Orosius
The article is devoted to comparative analysis of “World History against the pagans” by Paul Orosius and its Old English translation. The researcher explains the looseness of translation as a will of Anglo-Saxon translator to bring to the intended audience, only those ideas and images that were relevant in the age of Viking invasions. The results of the study are presented in the attached table.