Queen of the blood of the hero Eadmund, a King and Queen whose children would trace to AElfred by two descents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

Nor has it been thought worth while to retain the original spelling AElfred, the ae diphthong having been appropriated by us to an entirely new sound; while our own pronunciation of the name slightly broadened as yet in Wessex, is correct enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet] Reference