Both Anonymi 60 and Asser 1 provided personal information about the battle.
Event Title
Battle of Ashdown (871)/
Primary Source Info
Persons associated with this Event:
Witness:
Anonymi 60
(Truthful witnesses of the Battle of Ashdown) : Asser 1 heard from truthful people who saw it (Anonymi 60) that Alfred 8 arrived more swiftly at the place of battle [than Æthelred 15].
Recipient:
Asser 1
(Bishop of Sherborne, 890x900-909) : Asser 1 heard from truthful people who saw it (Anonymi 60) that Alfred 8 arrived more swiftly at the place of battle [than Æthelred 15].
(Other):
Alfred 8
(the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxons, 871-899)
Witness:
Asser 1
(Bishop of Sherborne, 890x900-909) : Asser 1 had seen with his own eyes a single scraggly thorn-tree where the battle took place.