The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, one of the most important documents that has
come down to us from the middle ages. It was originally compiled on the
orders of King Alfred the Great in approximately A.D. 890, and
subsequently maintained and added to by generations of anonymous scribes
until the middle of the 12th Century. The original language was
Anglo-Saxon (Old English), but later entries were probably made in an
early form of Middle English.
This document is the ultimate timeline of British history from its
beginnings up to the end of the reign of King Stephen in 1154. The
Chronicle certainly does not present us with a complete history of those
times and is probably not 100% accurate, either, but that doesn't
diminish its enormous value in helping us to arrive at a clearer picture
of what actually happened in Britain over a thousand years ago.
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