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(1908) [MARC] [MARC] Author: William Gershom Collingwood With: Frederick York Powell
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It will be well before speaking of this movement,
its causes, progress, and effects, to give some account
of the chief sources upon which our knowledge of it
must be based. The sources are of twofold origin,
springing from books or from things. The latter
comprise all the facts and ideas that can be drawn from
physical geography, from archæologic discoveries,
and from numismatics. The former, our written
authorities, may be grouped under the heads of
British, Scandinavian, and Continental.

Under the first heading come–the Old English
Chronicle by various anonymous authors, in its various
MSS., vernacular and Latin, ranging over nearly three
centuries, of the highest importance, as the work of
truthful contemporaries; the different references by
Old English authors, from King Alfred to Bishop
Wulfstan, to historical events of their days, and
several poems. To these we must add several lives of
saints, in Latin or English, and that vast collection
of deeds and records that makes up our Old English
Diplomatarium, a mine of information on places and
persons during the ninth and tenth centuries.

Next come the careful and accurate Irish chronicles,
especially Tighernach’s Annales, the compiled Annals
of Inisfallen
, Chronicon Scotorum, and the compilation
known as the Annals of the Four Masters, which
gives us an orderly mass of facts not found elsewhere,
and are of main use in fixing the difficult chronology
of the periods they cover.

The list of British authorities is concluded by the
Welsh chronicles, especially the Brut y Tywysogion

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