Not so much ‘Unready’, more ‘No-Idea’
Tom Shippey, 20 March 1997
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
edited and translated by M.J. Swanton.
Dent, 364 pp., £20, June 1996,0 460 87737 2 Show More
edited and translated by M.J. Swanton.
Dent, 364 pp., £20, June 1996,
“... with continuous circulation of authoritative supplements – ‘bulletins’ is the term Professor Swanton uses – to keep all copies up to date and all in line? Or did one man in Winchester, like the later monk in Peterborough, simply copy out a good deal of pre-existing and perhaps heterogeneous material, and cast it onto the waters of chance? This gives a ... ”
