The primary purpose of this paper is to closely examine the word order patterns of the codes of Alfred's law (henceforth Alfred's law) and clarify the characteristics of them in early Old English. For this reason, the controversies about whether Alfred's law lacks distinctiveness of his other writings or not are beyond discussion here. The word order patterns are classified according to the linear order of major constituents of the clause which has the explicit subject.

• Bo-Geun Hwang(Daegu University)