Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Versions of
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (9th century)
compiled under the direction of Alfred the Great

A collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. Nine versions of the Chronicle, some of which vary greatly, are extant.

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Versions of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle include:

Manuscripts edit

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (A) (Winchester or Parker Chronicle)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (B) (Abingdon Chronicle I)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (C) (Abingdon Chronicle II)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (D) (Worcester Chronicle)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (E) (Peterborough or Laud Chronicle)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (F) (Bilingual Canterbury Epitome)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G) (burned copy of the Winchester Chronicle (MS. A))
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (H) (Cottonian Fragment)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (I) (An Easter Table Chronicle)

Published editions edit

Benjamin Thorpe, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1861, 2 vols.) (transcription volumes: 1, 2); MS. A–F, G, and translation

Translations edit

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, translated by James Ingram (1823)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, translated by J. A. Giles (1914, first published in 1847)

About the Chronicle edit

"Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" in the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)