NOTE ON THE CHIEF AUTHORITIES. |
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Contemporary:— - Chronica Gallica, written up to 511.
- Constantius: Life of St. Germanus, written about 480.
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Later:— -
British: Gildas: Liber Querulus,[A] written between 540 and 560. - Nennius: Historia Brittonum,[A] written about 796.
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English: Bede: Historia Ecclesiastica,[A] finished 731. - The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,[A] begun probably in Alfred’s reign.
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597-731. - Bede: Historia Ecclesiastica,[A] Life and Miracles of St.
- Cuthbert, Lives of the Holy Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow.
- Eddius Stephanus: Life of Wilfrid, written soon after 710.
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.[A]
- Laws, Land-bocs, etc.
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731-1066. -
Contemporary:— - The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.[A]
- Letters of Boniface and Alcuin.
- Asser: Life of King Alfred.[A]
- B., a Saxon priest: Life of Dunstan, written between 995 and 1006.
- Anonymous: Life of Oswald, written between 995 and 1005.
- Ethelweard: Chronicle,[A] written at the end of the tenth century.
- Encomium Emmae, written about 1036.
- Anonymous: Life of Edward the Confessor, nearly contemporary.
- Laws, Land-bocs, etc.
- The Bayeux Tapestry.
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Later:— - William of Malmesbury: Gesta Regum[A] and Gesta Pontificum, finished about 1142.
- Florence of Worcester: Chronicle, written up to 1117.
- Symeon of Durham: History of the Church of Durham, written soon after 1104, and History of the Kings, written later.
- Henry of Huntingdon: History of the English,[A] written between 1130 and 1154.
- Geoffrey Gaimar: Estorie des Engles, written before 1147.
- Heimskringla Saga: Icelandic, put into shape at the end of the eleventh century.
- Roger de Hoveden: Annals,[A] written about 1200.
These are all written in Latin, except the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Laws and some Land-bocs in Anglo-Saxon, Gaimar in French, Heimskringla in Icelandic. BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD
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