 Complete the following phrase:  The French medievalist Alban Gautier, and separately the historian Christopher Snyder, suggest a connection with a different Anglo-Saxon king, Alfred of Wessex, described by Snyder as an unexpected monarch he had four elder brothers and inspirational leader who united disparate peoples. The Dutch medievalist Thijs Porck writes that Alfred, like Aragorn, spent time in exile: Danes attacked him in Chippenham, and he took refuge in the wilds, before gathering an army at Egberts Stone, paralleling Aragorns gathering of the Dead, the Oathbreakers, at the Stone of Erech, and defeating the Danes at the 