The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of early English history. Some of the most important works from this period include the poem Beowulf, which has achieved national epic status in Britain.
In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period, a significant corpus of both popular interest and specialist research. These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles, and others. The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle, likely scribed around 1150, is one of the major sources of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.Īnglo-Saxon literature (or Old English literature) encompasses literature written in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of Britain, from the mid- 5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066.
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