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| | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Introduction |
 | | If, therefore, it be admitted, as there is every reason to conclude from the foregoing remarks, that certain succinct and chronological arrangements of historical facts had taken place in several provinces of the Heptarchy before the time of Bede, let us inquire by whom they were likely to have been made. | | | To doubt this would be as incredulous a thing as to deny that Xenophon wrote his "Anabasis", or Caesar his "Commentaries". | | | of the "Saxon Chronicle", though prefixed or annexed to several, he undoubtedly preserved many traditionary facts; with a full and circumstantial detail of his own operations, as well as those of his father, brother, and other members of his family; which scarcely any other person than himself could have supplied. |
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| | Anglo-Saxon Chronicle on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Although the work was thought for some time to have been commissioned by King Alfred, there is no positive evidence to substantiate this claim; his encouragement of learning, however, undoubtedly inspired the compilation of the chronicle. | | | The account begins with the start of the Christian era and extends to 1154. | | | From the period of the wars between Saxons and Danes onward, most of the annals are original and are the sole source for information about certain events. |
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| | If, therefore, it be admitted, as there is every reason to conclude from the foregoing remarks, that certain succinct and chronological arrangements of historical facts had taken place in several provinces of the Heptarchy before the time of Bede, let us inquire by whom they were likely to have been made. | | | To doubt this would be as incredulous a thing as to deny that Xenophon wrote his "Anabasis", or Caesar his "Commentaries". | | | Alfred, his third son, Ethelwulf had sent to Rome; and when the pope heard say that he was dead, he consecrated Alfred king, and held him under spiritual hands, as his father Ethelwulf had desired, and for which purpose he had sent him thither. |
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| | Mercia |
| | It would, therefore, have been in 826 that Beornwulf was killed attempting to quash the East Anglian Rebellion. | | | The site of Ellendun is believed to be near Wroughton, Wiltshire. | | | The 'Chronicle' disparagingly describes Ceolwulf II as "an unwise king's thegn", however, he might possibly have been from the same branch of the Mercian nobility as Cenwulf (796-821) and his brother Ceolwulf I (821-823). |
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http://www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk/mercia.htm
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| | Regia Anglorum - Saxon Military Organisation |
| | Often the Bayeux Tapestry is quoted as a source for 'peasant levies' using the group of unarmoured men on the hill, or the fleeing Saxons at the end of the battle to support the theory. | | | A fyrdsman served because his land grant said he had to, and failure to serve led to a fine. | | | These and other paid warriors provided the late Saxon kings with a highly trained nucleus supported by the eorls and their war bands, and the ðegns of the fyrd. |
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http://www.regia.org/saxons2.htm
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| | Anglo-Saxons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However recent research by historians, archaeologists and geneticists offer some new perspectives. | | | The various tribes established a large number of kingdoms in what today is known as England, which were popularly described to have later consolidated into seven states known as the Heptarchy. | | | We need not doubt that the Angli and the Saxons were different nations originally; but from the evidence it seems likely that they had practically coalesced in very early times, perhaps even before the invasion. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
| | For a long time, the ASC was predominantly cited as the prime witness of Anglo-Saxon history. | | | Several scribes were responsible for writing and copying the Chronicle during the eleventh century, allowing for a contemporary comment in the mid-eleventh century entries. | | | This “original” Chronicle has not come down to us, but it formed the basis for the various ASC versions. |
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http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10516
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| | BBC NEWS England Merseyside Birthplace of Englishness 'found' |
| | The research claims that the site of the battle mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was on what is now a golf course in Bebington, Wirral. | | | Brunanburh could have been Bromborough, in Wirral, although other locations in Scotland, Yorkshire, Northamptonshire and Lancashire have been suggested by historians. | | | The bloodbath at Brunanburh in 937 AD was fought by King Athelstan when he united the Anglo-Saxons for the first time to fight off a Viking invasion. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/england/merseyside/4112301.stm
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| | Ling 215: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
| | It has vivid descriptions of the Viking catastrophes and the Norman Invasion and its aftermath. | | | This page was last modified on 25 January 1999. | | | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a unique document from a fascinating period of history. |
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http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/Course/aschron.html
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| | Britannia: Britain's Historical Documents |
| | The document on which Magna Carta was based. | | | The civil laws instituted by the new King William I and his barons for control of their new land. | | | Below, are some of the significant charters, histories, chronicles, accounts, laws and summonses that are now available. |
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http://britannia.com/history/docs
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| | THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE |
| | The first impression would appear to endorse Pevensey as a landing site but this I believe is misleading. | | | The Anglo Saxon Chronicle is considered by many to be the most reliable of documents because more than one version exists and all are written from the point of view of the local inhabitants, rather than the invaders. | | | The evidence is highly suggestive that Pevensey may have been intended to be the landing site, but more than this does not stand up to close scrutiny, when cross referenced with other contemporary documents. |
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http://www.secretsofthenormaninvasion.com/part24.htm
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| | Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This story was known to Bede and was repeated by him: “In the year 430 Palladius was sent by Pope Celestine to the Scots that believed in Christ to be their first bishop”. | | | Thus the various versions of the chronicle are an important development in historiography as well as a useful historical documents in their own right. | | | Under 477 we read that Wlencing was the son of Ælle, but Wlencing is a patronymic meaning ‘son of Wlenca’, so he cannot also have been son of Ælle! |
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| | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - an Introduction |
| | This document will describe what manuscripts survive, the history of these MSS, and how these Manuscripts have been transmitted. | | | This is in part derived from a Chronicle similar to MS A which terminates in 887--at least this is when Asser last utilises it in his "Life". | | | MS D is a mid-11th century copy of this which was then continued to 1179. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/asc/intro.html
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| | History of the Monarchy > The Anglo-Saxon kings > Alfred 'The Great' |
| | With only his royal bodyguard, a small army of thegns (the king's followers) and Aethelnoth earldorman of Somerset as his ally, Alfred withdrew to the Somerset tidal marshes in which he had probably hunted as a youth. | | | By the 890s, Alfred's charters and coinage (which he had also reformed, extending its minting to the burhs he had founded) referred to him as 'king of the English', and Welsh kings sought alliances with him. | | | Local people either surrendered or escaped (Hampshire people fled to the Isle of Wight), and the West Saxons were reduced to hit and run attacks seizing provisions when they could. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Anglo-Saxon Church |
| | This was not then possible, and Canterbury became the mother church of England. | | | London, however, very shortly afterwards had its church, and Mellitus was consecrated to reside there as Bishop of the East Saxons, while another church was erected at Rochester with Justus as bishop. | | | At the period of the Norman Conquest, York had only one suffragan see, that of Lindisfarne or Durham, but it obtained a sort of irregular supremacy over Worcester, owing to the abuse that for a long time the same archbishop had been accustomed to hold the sees of York and Worcester at once. |
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle on Alfred the Great |
| | And in the samewinter the brother of Inwar and Halfdene was in Wessex, in Devonshire, withtwenty-three ships, and he was there slain, and with him eight hundred andforty men of his force. | | | This particular variant chronicles the events Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, experienced during the Viking invasions of the ninth century. | | | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the few literary sources we have for England during the time period following the Roman presence and preceding the Norman invasion. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/angsax-chron1.html
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Assessment of William I |
| | If anyone would know what manner of man King William was, the glory that he obtained, and of how many lands he as lord, then will we describe him as we have known him, we who had looked upon him and who once lived at his court. | | | This text is part of the Internet Medieval Source Book. | | | We have written concerning him these things, both good and bad, that virtuous men may follow after the good, and wholly avoid the evil, and may go in the way that leadeth to the kingdom of heaven. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alfred the Great |
| | Alfred made Wessex a rallying point for all the Saxons and by freeing the country of the invaders unwittingly unified England and prepared the way for the eventual supremacy of his successors. | | | This war lasted for four years and resulted in the final establishment of Saxon supremacy. | | | For fifteen years Alfred's kingdom was at peace, but in 903 the Danes who had been driven out made another onslaught. |
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| | Anglo-Saxon chronicle |
| | The chronicles of ancient England that documents the Anglo-Saxon history on the islands of Britain. | | | It uses material from the wikipedia article Anglo-Saxon chronicle. | | | It contains several manuscripts for different Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England, amongst which the Winchester manuscript and the Canterbury manuscript may be mentioned. |
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http://www.eurofreehost.com/an/Anglo-Saxon_chronicle.html
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| | ORB: The Anglo-Saxons |
| | Second, this was the first period in which the English language appears in written form in such historical documents as The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, or literary works such as Beowulf. | | | However, it should be noted that dialectal variations do appear and students should be prepared for some unfamiliar spellings. | | | This period of the English language is referred to as Old English (or occasionally Anglo-Saxon). |
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| | King Alfred the Great |
| | This treaty was drawn up in the 886-890 period. | | | A Chronicle of Guthorm's (Guthrum's) invasion of Wessex in 878, written by Dana Metheny, 1995. | | | An excerpt from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, covering the same years 878-886, also from White and Notestein. |
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| | Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 3: MS A, 0859911039, £45.00/$90.00, 304pp, 1986 |
| | The nature of the Chronicle, its relation to official historiography, and its historical place, have long been debated: thisproject will provide a uniform edition from which further research can proceed. | | | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the backbone of Anglo-Saxon history, an almost contemporary record of events for about five hundred years, and a vital resource for Anglo-Saxon historians. | | | This collaborative edition will eventually include the seven base manuscripts with their contemporary continuations, and ancillary material which sheds light on the Chronicle. |
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http://www.boydell.co.uk/59911039.HTM
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| | Regia Anglorum - Kingmakers - The Story of the House of Godwin |
| | A Folk gemot was assembled, during which Godwin made a speech declaring that he and his family were innocent of any crime. | | | They had to fight their way out of the Eastgate of the city "..... | | | killing or wounding many young men." as the Chronicle tells us. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
| | Buy The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (... | | | Ranging from the start of the Christian era to 1154, the uniqueness of the chronicle as an historical and literary document makes it of compelling interest throughout. | | | Ecclesiastical History of the English People: With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's Letter on the Death of Bede (Classics S.); Paperback ~ The Venerable St.Bede, et al |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
| | The first continuous national history of any western people in their own language, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle traces the history of early England from the migration of the Saxon war-lords, through Roman Britain, the onslaught of the Vikings, the Norman Conquest and on through the reign of Stephen. | | | Following the story of the Anglo-Saxons from their rather shadowy beginnings (the early parts of the book aren't precisely historical, as is explained in the introduction) through their battles with the Vikings and their conquest by the Normans, as told in their own words, one also gets to see the chronicle's authors grow in sophistication. | | | Sooner or later, of course, Swanton's annotations will begin to show their age too, although the technology of the next fifty years may allow more frequent and more radical improvements in published works than was possible in the twentieth century. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415921295?v=glance
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| | Showcases :: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
| | The court origins of the Chronicle mean that its early entries are essentially an official history of the West Saxon royal dynasty (although some Mercian material is drawn upon), but from the late 10th century, the entries made in the various versions kept in different monasteries became increasingly independent. | | | This manuscript formerly belonged to Abingdon Abbey - it gives local information about Abingdon, strongly suggesting that it was also written there. | | | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the oldest history of any European country in a vernacular language. |
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| | Anglo-Saxon Sources |
| | Willibald, Life of Boniface In: Anglo-Saxon Saints and Heroes Edited and translated by Clinton Albertson, S.J. (1967) Fordham University Press. | | | Rollason, D. The Mildrith Legend: A Study of Early Medieval Hagiography in England Leicester University Press. | | | Yorke, Barbara (1985) 'The Kingdom of the East Saxons' Anglo-Saxon England 14: 1-37. |
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http://members.aol.com/michellezi/bibs/Anglo-Saxons.html
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: England |
| | All the material from this chronicle relevant to the Becket matter; Roger quotes many letters written by those closely involved in the dispute, including Thomas himself. | | | A fake document, attributed to St. Patrick but actually concocted by the monks of Glastonbury Abbey to prove their primacy over the neighboring See of Bath and Wells. | | | Roger of Hoveden: The Revolt and Death of the Young King, 1183, from The Chronicle |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1n.html
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| | Our Anglo-Saxon Heritage |
| | The Finnesburh Fragment, a surviving section of a poem describing Hengist, the alleged leader of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain and the first Saxon king of Kent; in translation. | | | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, maintained at various monasteries from the time of Alfred until after the Conquest, it is an annual record of the history of Anglo-Saxon England | | | A tribal map, the locations of the various Ango-Saxon kingdoms/nations/tribes |
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| | The Battle of Maldon |
| | Anglo-Saxon Chronicle seems to say after a raid on Ipswich the Danes were led at Maldon by the famous Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason, but this entry has almost certainly been confused with the events of 994. | | | It seems more probable that the Danes at Maldon were led by their own king, Sweyn Forkbeard, son of King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark (builder of the Danish ring-fortresses, such as Trelleborg on Sjælland, and of the royal centre at Jelling in Jutland). |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Guardian daily comment Class war on the hoof |
| | These lands were governed by a brutal set of forest laws. | | | In 1293, the historian Andrew McCall tells us, "the English parliament decreed that no proceedings were to be taken against foresters, parkers or warreners if they killed poachers who resisted arrest". | | | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that William I "set up great protection for deer and legislated to that intent, that whosoever should slay hart or hind should be blinded". |
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| | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 924-983 |
| | This edition of the "Second Continuation" of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles was presented in print form to the Graduate School of Saint Louis University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts (Research) degree, during Summer 1996. | | | The edition is no longer available on this site, but you can still access the background chapters on hypertext through my Webfolio, or by following the links below. | | | Wider recognition of the role of the user interface in shaping the reader's experience of literary texts would improve the design and effectiveness of hypertext applications. |
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http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/chron
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| | Anglo-Saxon England and Wales - map and history |
| | We know that they established separate kingdoms, the Saxons settling in the south and west, the Angles in the east and north, and the Jutes on the Isle of Wight and the mainland opposite. | | | They probably thought of themselves as separate peoples, but they shared a common language and similar customs. |
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http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Anglo-Saxon_Britain.htm
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| | St Dunstan biography |
| | Saint Dunstan is fairly unusual among Anglo-Saxon saints in that we know where, if not precisely when, he was born. | | | Dunstan was born in the village of Baltonsborough, Somerset, just a few miles south of Glastonbury, probably about the year 909 or 910. | | | Home > History > Saxon > Saint Dunstan |
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| | Medieval and Renaissance Fact and Fiction |
| | This chronicle is a very important document for early British history. | | | A transcription of the original Old English manuscript is given here, no translation. | | | An article on the costume shown on a carved whale bone panel with the Virgin Mary in 12th century dress. |
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| | The Anglo Saxon Chronicles English history |
| | These Chronicles are best read in conjunction with Nennius, Bede and Gildas not forgetting the Annales Cambriae all found on this Page. | | | He later became Known as King Alfred the Great. | | | Use the keyword search to discover if your ancesters are mentioned in the Chronicles. |
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http://www.webmesh.co.uk/a-s-homepage.htm
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| | Dark Ages - The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
| | The Chronicle (by years): [>A.D. Coming soon] [Coming soon] | | | Britain and the End of the Roman Empire by Ken Dark. |
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| | The Anglo Saxon Chronicle |
| | Being the pedant Anglo Saxon that I am, I had to point out, the typical and continental mistake of confusing Liberty with Freedom. | | | On visiting Magna Carta Plus, I was dismayed to see the image of 'Marianne', one of the most prominent symbols of the French Republic staring back at me. | | | Just make your mind up the piper must be paid |
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| | Old English literature and culture resources |
| | 'Although similar to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in its annalistic approach, Asser personalized his Life of King Alfred so that the man, and not just the Christian king who vanquished the paganistic heathen, was presented. | | | Yet another link to the Ingram translation (see description above); this one was converted to HTML from the Project Gutenberg Etext by Mary Gunstone, April 1998. | | | The text of this electronic edition is based on that published as The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (London, Everyman Press, 1912), and was edited, proofed, and prepared by Douglas B. Killings. |
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| | Laws of Alfred and Ine |
| | The contents list has been checked against the facsimile | | | The Parker Chronicle and Laws (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS. |
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| | The Life of King Alfred |
| | The text of this edition is based on that published as "Six Old English Chronicles", translated and edited by Dr. J.A. Giles (London, 1847). |
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