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The Chronicles (there are more than one) were developed primarily as a means of remembering and recording the date. There was a widespread contemporary belief that the world would end at the millennium ( AD 1000), so fixing your place relative to the end of the world was important. Annals were mainly kept at monasteries and were intensely local documents. Items important to the locals, such as the fertility of the harvest or the paucity of bees, would be eagerly recorded, wheras distant political events were largely ignored. A combination of the individual annals allows us to develop an overall picture, a document that was the first continuous history written by Europeans in their own language. Thus the Chronicles are an important development in historiography as well as a useful historical documents in their own right.

There are nine surviving manuscripts (including two copies), of which eight are written entirely in Old English, while the ninth is a mixture of Old English and Latin. One (the Peterborough Chronicle) contains early Middle English as well as Anglo-Saxon. The oldest (Corp. Chris. MS 173) is known as the Parker Chronicle, after Matthew Parker who once owned it, or the Winchester Chronicle. They are:

• The Parker Chronicle (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS. 173)
  • Cottonian Fragment (British Museum, Cotton MS. Otho B xi, 2)
• The Abingdon Chronicle I (British Museum, Cotton MS. Tiberius A vi.)
• The Abingdon Chronicle II (British Museum, Cotton MS. Tiberius B i.)
• The Worcester Chronicle (British Museum, Cotton MS. Tiberius B iv.)
• The Laud (or " Peterborough") Chronicle (Bodleian, MS. Laud 636)
• The Bilingual Canterbury Epitome (British Museum, Cotton MS. Domitian A viii.) - entries in English and Latin.
  • Cottonian Fragment (British Museum, Cotton MS. Domitian A ix.)
• An Easter Table Chronicle (British Museum, Cotton MS. Caligula A xv.)

Some think that the chronicles were originally commissioned by King Alfred, but there is no substantive evidence for this. Many of the surviving manuscripts that are together known as The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles are concerned with him, but others marginalise him, depending on the preference of the original scribe. The translated texts (together with explanatory materials) are available in books and on the Internet, so scholars at all levels can now consult them directly.

See Anglo-Saxon kingdom genealogyGenealogy The chronicles of ancient England that document the Anglo-Saxon history on the islands of Britain. It contains several manuscripts for different Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England, amongst which the Winchester manuscript and the Canterbury manuscri for a comparison of the genealogies of the Canterbury and Winchester manuscripts with the one given by Snorri SturlusonSnorri Sturluson ( 1179 September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was twice law-speaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Younger Edda or Prose Edda, which is comprised of Gylfaginning ("the f in his EddaFor Edda 'great-grandmother' as the ancestress of serfs see Rig . The Edda are collections of poetically narrated folk-tales relating to Norse Mythology or Norse heroes. These are fragmentary parts of a (presumably) much larger scaldic tradition of oral n.

1 Reference

• Peter Hunter Blair , An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, pp. 352-355

2 External links

• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg PG was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. The texts provided are mostly in the pub - Public domain copy.
• Transcribed original text
• Translation to English

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