Year by year, the monks who kept the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded the arrival of the English, the coming of Christianity, Alfred’s wars with the Danes, and the fall of the old kingdom at Stamford Bridge and Hastings. This plain, close translation was made by Anna Gurney, a Norfolk scholar working only from printed texts, and comes with an index.
The founding narrative source for early English history, in one of the earliest English versions, and a pioneering woman scholar’s work. Download the free EPUB.