NOTE ON THE CHIEF AUTHORITIES.
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“449.” Contemporary:— Chronica Gallica, written up to 511. Constantius: Life of St. Germanus, written about 480. Later:— British: Gildas: Liber Querulus,[A] written between 540 and 560. Nennius: Historia Brittonum,[A] written about 796. English: Bede: Historia Ecclesiastica,[A] finished 731. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,[A] begun probably in Alfred’s reign.
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.
120731-1066. 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. 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.
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