sentences:  Galbraith's arguments were refuted to the satisfaction of most historians by Dorothy Whitelock in "Genuine Asser", in the Stenton Lecture of 1967.More recently, in 2002, Alfred Smyth has argued that the "Life" is a forgery by Byrhtferth, basing his case primarily on an analysis of Byrhtferth's and Asser's Latin vocabulary.Byrhtferth's motive, according to Smyth, is to lend Alfred's prestige to the Benedictine monastic reform movement of the late tenth century.