The Chronicle: Annals 455 to 477 (Text)

Old English Reading 1

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📜 The Chronicle: Annals 455 to 477

The Old English only, with no gloss or translation. Read in Old English Reading 1, Chapter 4. Download as a .txt file.

Source and licence Wikisource, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (E), annals 455, 465, 473 and 477, from C. Plummer's 1892 edition, exactly as the page prints them. The work is public domain; the Wikisource page text is CC BY-SA 4.0.

The text

455. Her Hengest and Horsa fuhton wið Wyrtgerne þam cininge on þære stowe þe is cweden .Ægeles þrep. and his broðor Horsan man of sloh. and æfter þonn feng to rice Hengest. and Æsc his sunu.

465. Her Hengest and Æsc gefuhton wið Walas neh Wippedes fleote. and ðær of slogon xii Wilsce ealdor men. and heora an þegn wearð þær of slegen. þam wæs nama Wipped.

473. Her Hengest and Æsc ge fuhton wið Walas. and genamon unarimenlicu here reaf. and þa Walas flugon þa Englan swiðe þaearle.

477. Her com Ælle on Brytenland. and his iii suna. Cymen. and Wlencing. and Cissa. mid iii scipum on ða stowe þe is genemnad Cymenesora. and þær of slogon manige Walas. and sume on fleame be drifon. on þone wudu þe is nemned Andredes lege.

Note The page's quirks are kept, for example þaearle in 473, which I think may be a slip (see Old English Reading 1, Chapter 4).