Authorship: ChronicleĘthelweard 23 View information for this person Author of Chronicle of Ęthelweard

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Authored Work Ęthelweard.Chron  Chronicle of Ęthelweard (Chronicle)
Year 978 x 988
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Original Text ... nunc cooperante Deo ab ipsius principio mundi annalem sumentes ritum, dilucidius explicare oportet.... Quin etiam de priscorum aduentu parentum a Germania in Brittanniam, tot bella, tot caedes uirorum, classiumque periclitationem gurgite oceani non p
(Now with the assistance of God it behoves [me, sc. Ęthelweard 23], taking an annalistic account from the beginning of the world itself, to expound more clearly. You [sc. Matilda 1] might very easily find in the following small pages an outline of the arrival of our ancient forebears in Britain from Germania, so many wars, so many slaughters of men, and no small wrecking of fleets on the tumult of the ocean.)

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  • Primary: Ęthelweard 23 (Ealdorman of the Western Provinces, c.975-c.998; author of a chronicle)