THE IRISH CHRONICLES AND THE BRITISH TO ANGLO-SAXON TRANSITION IN SEVENTH-CENTURY NORTHUMBRIA

Nicholas Evans

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THE IRISH CHRONICLES AND THE BRITISH TO ANGLO-SAXON TRANSITION IN SEVENTH-CENTURY NORTHUMBRIA

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Pages:: 15–43

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401200417_003

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This article examines the Irish chronicle evidence relating to late sixth- to eighth-century Northumbria and the northern Britons, in order to understand what sources they included, as well as how the Irish chronicles relate to the Welsh Annales Cambriae and Historia Brittonum, to Bede’s works and to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Through a detailed analysis of these texts, it is argued that the common Irish chronicle material was independent of these Anglo-Saxon sources, although the Clonmacnoise-group of Irish chronicles does contain later additions based on Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica. It is also proposed that the Irish chronicles do not derive from the northern British annals which formed a common source for Annales Cambriae and Historia Brittonum. Instead, they reflect a separate Northumbrian, initially British but later Anglo-Saxon, stream of recorded events reaching the ‘Iona Chronicle’; therefore, the Irish chronicles provide potential evidence for Celtic influence on the development of English chronicling.

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The Medieval Chronicle VII

Series: The Medieval Chronicle, Volume: 7

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401200417

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2011

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
  - English & Anglophone

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