| To Asser, Offa was an imperialistic bully whose progeny alone surpassed him in unsavoriness. |
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| Asser ploughs on ever deeper into his demonology of the victims and sanitising of their aggressors. |
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| Asser speaks grandiosely of Alfred's relations with foreign powers, but little definite information is available. |
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| His biographer Asser gave a detailed description of Alfred's symptoms and this has allowed modern doctors to provide a possible diagnosis. |
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| Bishop Asser claimed that the pagans agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise. |
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| The purpose of this expedition is debated, though Asser claims that it was for the sake of plunder. |
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| Alfred commissioned Bishop Asser to write his biography, which inevitably emphasised Alfred's positive aspects. |
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| According to Asser, Alfred enticed foreign monks to England for his monastery at Athelney as there was little interest for the locals to take up the monastic life. |
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| Asser represents Alfred as a Solomonic judge, painstaking in his own judicial investigations and critical of royal officials who rendered unjust or unwise judgments. |
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| Comparatively early in his reign, according to Asser, the southern Welsh princes, owing to the pressure on them from North Wales and Mercia, commended themselves to Alfred. |
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| Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won as a prize a book of Saxon poems, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorize it. |
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| In 2005, she received an honorary fellowship from the Rector of London's University of Arts, Sir Michael Bichard and University Registrar Susan Asser. |
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