After Alfred by Stafford Pauline;

Author:Stafford, Pauline; [Stafford, Pauline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA - OSO
Published: 2020-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

After Alfred: Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and Chroniclers, 900–1150. Pauline Stafford, Oxford University Press 2020. © Pauline Stafford.

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859642.001.0001

1 1024 blank in all; 1025 blank in C and D, not in E; 1026 blank in C and E, not in D; 1027 blank in all three; 1028 all share the first sentence, D and E then agree on development; 1029 C blank, D and E agree; 1030 D and E agree, C diverges; 1031 C blank, D and E similar; 1032 C and D blank, E diverges; 1033 C blank, D and E diverge; 1034 all agree on Bishop Ætheric’s death (D Ælfric), but diverge in the rest of this annal.

2 David Dumville and Sten Körner have both argued that the ‘Æthelred annals’ ended somewhere within those numbered 1017 to 1022. Both see a new source text, from which ALL surviving chronicles derive, covering the annals from 1017/1019 or perhaps 1022 to 1044. Thus Dumville, ‘Some Aspects’ at p. 26; Körner, The Battle of Hastings, England and Europe 1035–1066 (Lund, 1964), pp. 1–24. This means we could have a /CE for the years 980s to 1044 which was then copied with different versions of the years to 980s to become our /C and /E. An initial problem with this is the agreement of DE in the annals to the early 1020s vis à vis C. O’Brien O’Keeffe also emphasizes the ‘complex divergence’ among C, D, and E from annal 1023 onwards: Chronicle C, pp. lxviii–lxix.

3 There are certainly differences among C, D, and E for the annals numbered 983–991, which might sustain such an argument. C e.g. adds the death of the pope at the annal for 983; DE agree against C in their (slightly) extended description of Bishop Æthelwold at 984; D lacks the Abingdon reference which C has under 985, E under 984; E alone extends the reference to Dunstan under 988. In addition, the numbering of annals in these years has some variations not present among these chronicles after 991. Thus C omits the number 987 which is in D as a blank annal. In E there is material under 987, which forms part of the 988 annal in C and D. C and D place material in 990, including the accession of Archbishop Sigeric of Canterbury, which E has under 989, with a blank in 990. 990 agrees with the evidence of the Leofric Missal: see the Paschal Tables on fo 53a in The Leofric Missal as used in the Cathedral of Exeter during the Episcopate of its First Bishop a.d. 1050–1072, ed. F. E. Warren (Oxford, 1883), p. 50, a source which also has the death of Edgar under 976, and of Bishop Æthelwold under 985.

4 Plummer: ‘all of one piece’ with ‘a strongly marked unity of subject’, written at Canterbury, Two Chronicles, ii, pp. cxvi, 187, and 190 for his view of evidence of contemporary writing. For retrospect see also Körner, The Battle of Hastings, pp. 7–10.

5 C. Clark, ‘The Narrative Mode of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle before the Conquest’, in P.

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