Two of the Saxon chronicles parallel, (787-1001 A.D.) with supplementary extracts from the others. A rev. text, edited, with introd., critical notes, and glossary by Charles Plummer, on the basis of an ed.

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MiHISTORICAL OUTLINE. xiiihad made his over Kent and EastEcgbert good supremacyand over and WalesAnglia Mercia, Northumbria,(823), (827-8).But had this faint semblance of national union beenscarcelywhen the work was thanmore undone the onsetsattained, byof heathen which soon assumed a much moreDanes, organisedform. East and the eastern half ofNorthumberland, Anglia,Mercia were soon andoverrun Wessex wasconquered ; fiercelyattacked. The culminated under whose warsAlfred,struggleform the central of interest in our narrative.pointinAlfred holds real the which romancehistory place assigns—to Arthur a Christian; king,1Scarce other than own idealmy knight/rolls backwho the tide of heathen from his nativeconquestland. The of which more than half ofpeace 878, by Englandto the seem the confession of a ..." />

TWO OF THE SAXON CHRONICLES PARALLEL =m (-87—1001 ad.) ICO WITH ;o >CD =c^ "*"EABLE'S TWO SAXON CHRONICLES PARALLEL a.d.)(787-1001 PLUMMERHENRY FROWDE Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen E.C.Corner,CVrrorncleATio\o-^axoY» TWO OF THE SAXON CHKONICLES PARALLEL (787—1001 a.d.) WITH SUPPLEMENTARY EXTRACTS FROM THE OTHERS A Revised Text WITH CRITICAL AND GLOSSARYEDITED, INTRODUCTION, NOTES, BY CHARLES M.A.PLUMMER, Fellow and ChristiChaplain of Corpus College, Oxford THEON BASIS OF AN EDITION BY JOHN M.A.EARLE, in the and sometimeProfessor ofAnglo-Saxon University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor Orielof College AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1889 rights[AM reserved]150 H>Mi HISTORICAL OUTLINE. xiii had made his over Kent and EastEcgbert good supremacy and over and WalesAnglia Mercia, Northumbria,(823), (827-8). But had this faint semblance of national union beenscarcely when the work was thanmore undone the onsetsattained, by of heathen which soon assumed a much moreDanes, organised form. East and the eastern half ofNorthumberland, Anglia, Mercia were soon andoverrun Wessex wasconquered ; fiercely attacked. The culminated under whose warsAlfred,struggle form the central of interest in our narrative.point inAlfred holds real the which romancehistory place assigns —to Arthur a Christian ; king, 1 Scarce other than own idealmy knight/ rolls backwho the tide of heathen from his nativeconquest land. The of which more than half ofpeace 878, by England to the seem the confession of a disas-Dane,passed might trous defeat. In it is to overestimate whatreality impossible had been Wessex was and in Wessexgained. saved, saving Alfred insaved and he saved WesternEngland, saving England from a Scandinavian It is true thatEurope becoming power. this did not avert later under and Cnutconquest Swegen ; but that for a time athough conquest gave England dynasty of Danish it did not make her Scandinavian in thekings, same sense in which the earlier would haveconquests done, had been successful. And if Wessex had lost much thethey by Danish inroads she had also them.gained something by They made her the of national therepresentative English feeling, one in the island which could boast a house ofpower royal unbroken national descent. The work of Alfred's successors in the endeavour to win back and the under-lay incorporate which had been ceded to the Danes. But thekingdoms work was when it was moreonly very imperfectly accomplished, than undone the renewal of Danish inroadsthe towards thebyxiv INTRODUCTION. ofclose the ioth which culminated in the electioncentury, of Cnut as sole of in But the Danishking England 1017. more than a of a of faileddynasty, during quarter century rule, to make its hold on and the chiefgood England ; significance of Cnut's lies in the fact that he theexploit prepared way for "William the Norman. He first made one. TheEngland thus created found an outward and a materialunity expression frame-work in the administrative of andII,system Henry received the which made it ainforming spirit living thing ' ' from the constitutional reforms of Edward the firstI, king thesince who 'bore a andConquest name,purely English afollowed Vpurely English policy inBut forward to this time we have farlooking passed beyond ofthe limits our little book. We conclude with the re-may —flection of the Latin poet, 2 'Tantae molis erat Romanam condere .'gentem It for me to a of the mostremains fewexpress prominent which I have incurred in the of thisobligations preparation little book. For the I have made constantglossary naturally ' of the new Bosworth-Tolleruse alsoAnglo-Saxon Dictionary/ ' the toof Mr. Sweet's whichAnglo-Saxon Header,' glossary an excellent ofcontains selection words. Grein's monumental ' • der Dichter has also beenSprachschatz angelsachsischen withof the reference to thegreatest service, especially poetical in the Chronicle.passages thanks to the friends who have me and whoMy many helped me with work I defer. Three names Iare helping my must, mention. In the first I must thank Professorhowever, place whom I owe introduction totoEarle, my original Anglo-Saxon 31 ' Norm. i. iEn. i.6.Freeman, Virg. 33.Conq.',