trans. and ed. M. J. Swanton (London: Dent, 1996). xxxvi + 363 pp. ISBN 0-460-87737-2. 20.00 [pounds sterling].

After a long gestation, the Collaborative Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first advertised in a prospectus issued in 1981. Originally no fewer than twenty-three volumes were planned for the series, each by a separate editor, under the joint general editorship of David Dumville and Simon Keynes. Of these, volumes 3-9 were to be straightforward editions of the Old English texts generally known as MSS A-G; volumes 1-2 and 10-14 were to be comparative ...

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