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Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: With Supplementary Extracts From the Others
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N 0 general assertion can be made concerning the historical quality of this section: each clause must be estimated and valued for itself. Some parts are pure dream-work, while others have a historical and trustworthy appearance. These prevail more and more towards the close of the period, as if indicating the existence of better documents, which it is natural to suppose would have been kept with more or less care from the reception of Christianity. And therefore the date 634 has been fixed on as the close of this Section, although there is no appearance of a division, the traditional being intermingled with the earliest traces of documentary annals.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
N 0 general assertion can be made concerning the historical quality of this section: each clause must be estimated and valued for itself. Some parts are pure dream-work, while others have a historical and trustworthy appearance. These prevail more and more towards the close of the period, as if indicating the existence of better documents, which it is natural to suppose would have been kept with more or less care from the reception of Christianity. And therefore the date 634 has been fixed on as the close of this Section, although there is no appearance of a division, the traditional being intermingled with the earliest traces of documentary annals.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
542 pages, Hardcover
First published December 7, 2000
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May 11, 2021
Impressive work that combines all the sruving manuscripts of the Chronicles in Old English! To say that I read through and through would be a lie but it was very useful for my research.
November 4, 2016
This edition contains the Parker (A) text alongside the Peterborough (E), but it also includes excerpts from the other versions of the Chronicle. It's a shame it hasn't been re-issued since 1962, since it is incredibly helpful to compare different version of events to find regional biases in their writing of British history. The dictionary is very good, as well. I would definitely use this text if I taught a course on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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