Englisc Cranic

Se Englisca Cranic is cranic se arecceð Englarices stær, þærof wæs his mæst gewrit gewriten þende gegangas belampen. Ðes cranic is gewriten in Englisce.

Fruma gewrit þæs Cranicea wæs wyrcen lǽt on þām nīðan hundred, wēarde on Westseaxum, under Ælfrede Cyninge (se ricsode fram 871 oþ 899). His geāning, ðæt geendian wæron þæt sona mistlice forloren þā wæs frōfre from ǣrðe sēofan hund, is namaþ 'Gemǣne Gēn' of þære Crónicle. Mynte manega cnota of þære anum origenal and þonne forðsend to mynsterum ofer Englalande, hwær híe wæron ārǣd, dǽl swiðe syngēlīce. Þas bec fægen to nemne þæt Ænglisaxisc Crónicale. Eall þæt þing in þæs Crónicale is on þæm form of ænig, be geāre; þæt ealdeste is æt 60 æt Ƿrēðcynn (þæs æniġes dæge for Cæsares fare on Breten).

Niga bōc-rǣdena þæs Crōnicle, nān ðæs is þāra fruma, āwaþ in algêne oððe on dǽl. Seofon beoð gehālden on þǣm Bryttisc Biblioþece, ān on þǣm Bodlīcas Biblioþece æt Oxanforde, and se ældest on þǣm Parker Biblioþece of Corpus Christi Ceaster Leornung Scolu, Cāmbryc. Se ældesta wǣð þæt hēo wæs frumsæd se towards ende Ælfrēdes rīc, hwilst se niwest wæs ge-copied æt Pēterburgscipe Æbbe after ǣr æteowde on þǣm mynstre in 1116. Sume lǣtere miðeldæge crunicle þe of forloren mōdscriptum cymð, fēala mægmæst hǣtuð fram Cruniclic ǣnglæca. 

Ðeah swīðe swā micel þæs onfōn þurh Crunicle næs ōðer where gewriten, and for þǣm gēomrǣde geᚹealde īcen þær ȳmbūtan dambeð, Crunicle is ænig of þā mæst þēogere hīstoriscra bēorhtinga for Englað in þā dǣlas forfall of Rōmānisce āweardnesse and þā færon ȳmbūtan þǣm Normenna Sēge. Nicholas Howe hæfde hit nemned and Bede's Hanðcræftlic Gēatþing þe Englisca Folca, þā twā micclan Anglo-Saxisc worc of gēatþing. Þā Crōnicle's ræden hæfaþ tō wiðerwīsan micel politic, mid þǽm Gemæne Stoc gecynde þæt æfre hæfde tō ānweardne sealden þæs cyninges and rīċe Ælfrēþes Drihten. Gemǽne on Crōnicle manuscērft and mid oðrum middēaldum frōfre witað þæt þā scrīfan þe cōpiedon oððe āfēowen hit forlæte wæpen oððe seon hweorfende ðǽr, oft for tō ðūhtwisan nyþer ǽrþinges Englisca politic.

Þa swīðlican wīðsǽdels bec syndon eac mid þearfan for þære wyrde Englisc gereorde; forðon, on ænþon fram 1131 æfne, se lǣst Peterburg wīc sægde forð key talan for þære gefrēon oþþe lǣtan Ealdenglisce writre orde to ǣrran Midenglisc, hælding sumra ǣrra cyðnysse Midenglisc writ.