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THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE: A COLLABORATIVE EDITION, Volume 7 MS. E Susan Irvine Editor D. S. BREWER . CAMBRIDGE THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE A COLLABORATIVE EDITION VOLUME 7.MS. E THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE A COLLABORATIVE EDITION VOLUME 7 MS. E A semi-diplomatic edition with introduction and indices Edited by Susan Irvine D. S. BREWER.CAMBRIDGE Susan Irvine 2004 All Rights Reserved.Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 2004 D. S. Brewer, Cambridge ISBN 0 85991 494 1 Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the eBook. D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604–4126, USA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83–17130 This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk CONTENTS Preface vii Plate ix INTRODUCTION xi The Manuscript xiii History xiii Physical description xviii Scribes xviii Scribal practices xxiii The Text xxxi The annal-numbers xxxi Textual relationships xxxii Annals up to 890 xxxvi Annals from 892 to 981 lviii Annals from 983 to 1043b lxiv Annals from 1043bto 1063 lxxv Annals from 1064 to 1080 lxxxii Annals after 1080 lxxxiv The Latin entries lxxxviii The Peterborough material: links with other documents xc The Peterborough Interpolations xc The Peterborough Continuations ic Language ciii Orthography civ Phonology cviii Morphology cxxxix Syntax clvii Vocabulary clxiii Proper nouns clxv Editorial Conventions clxvii Bibliography clxxi TEXT OF MS. E 1 Indices Personal names 141 General 141 Insular 145 People-names 161 Place-names 164 PREFACE Much that is known about Anglo-Saxon England would have remained undiscovered but for the existence of the seven manuscripts which collec- tively represent the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The importance of the Chron- icle, however, extends well beyond its historical content: its composition over a period of time reflects transitions of vital interest to literary and linguistic scholars. Of the extant versions of the Chronicle, the E-text, or ‘ThePeterboroughChronicle’,whichiseditedinthisvolume,isperhapsthe mostimportant;incontinuinguptothesecondhalfofthetwelfthcentury,its span is by far the longest of all the manuscripts. A new edition of the E-text will,Ihope,notonlyencourageandfacilitatestudyonthisparticularversion of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, but also allow the complexity of its inter- relationships with the other versions of the Chronicle and other historical works to be more fully recognized. With the publication of this edition, all the main texts of the Chronicle from A to F are now available in the Boydell and Brewer Anglo-Saxon Chronicle collaborative series. Producing a volume which is part of a larger work – the Boydell & Brewer Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition – has been advantageous in many ways. I have appreciated enor- mously the support of the editors of the other Chronicle texts, in particular thatofProfessorJanetBately,whoreadandcommentedonadraftofpartof the introduction and made many insightful suggestions, and of Professor Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, whose pointers in discussion always led me in interesting directions. Caroline Palmer and Vanda Andrews at Boydell & Brewer answered all my questions with alacrity and offered patient encouragement. Producing a volume within a larger work does of course require some compromises. My main regret is that it has not been possible to provide a translation to accompany this edition. There are, however, several good translations available of the E-text and I hope that they can be used where necessary in conjunction with this edition. Ihaveotherdebtsofgratitude.Iwouldliketothankmycolleaguesinthe Department of English at University College London, and in particular Pro- fessor Henry Woudhuysen for reading and providing many valuable com- mentsonadraftoftheintroduction.AgrantfromtheBritishAcademymade it possible for Victoria Condie to prepare the Indices to the text and I am gratefultotheformerforfundingandtothelatterforherassiduityinunder- taking this task. The staff of the Bodleian Library has been consistently vii PREFACE courteous and helpful during my visits there, as indeed have the staff of the BritishLibraryandofCorpusChristiCollege,Cambridge,whosemanuscript collections I have also consulted. Michael Fraser of the Oxford University Computing Services generated a series of concordances and indices which were immensely helpful in the preparation of the language section. Bruce Mitchell and Jill House both read different parts of the language section and offered extremely useful comments. Gordon Anderson generously lent me CecilyClark’scopyofheredition,completewithherannotations.Thanksfor answerstoqueriesorotherkindsofhelpareduetoValerieAdams,Thomas Bredehoft, Jayne Carroll, Malcolm Godden, Terry Hoad, Peter Jackson, Simon Keynes, Christine Rauer, Jane Roberts, Don Scragg, Eric Stanley, Jo Story, and Elizabeth Tyler. Finally I would like to acknowledge the huge support of my family, who have learnt more about the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle than they would neces- sarily have wished to. This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, Sir Robin Irvine:god man and wæl luued of alle gode men. Susan Irvine University College London September 2003 viii Image not available Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 636, fol. 81r (showing Hand 1 before and after the break in copying at the end of 1121) By permission of the Bodleian Library
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