1. CONTEMPORARY:—
Chronica Gallica, written up to 511.
Constantius: Life of St. Germanus, written about 480.
2. LATER:—
i. _British_: Gildas: Liber Querulus,[A] written between
540 and 560.
Nennius: Historia Brittonum,[A] written about 796.
ii. _English_: Bede: Historia Ecclesiastica,[A] finished
731.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,[A] begun probably in Alfred’s
reign.
II. 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.
III. 731-1066.
1. 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.
2. 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.
Footnote A:
Translations of these works are published in Bohn’s Library (Messrs.
G. Bell and Sons).
BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD
Transcriber’s Notes
Printed Corrected Page
499 449 vii “499.”
unlucky, unlucky. 3 nothing was ever so unlucky.
‘I “I 83 “I thank thee, O most High
A number of spelling irregularities have been retained as-is from the
printed version.
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