Old English: Selections from the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
449. Her Martianus 7 Ualentinus
onfengon rice. 7
rixadon .vii. winter.
Here Martianus
& Valentinus seized (the) kingdom. And ruled 7 winters.
7 on
þeora dagum gelaðode Wyrtgeorn Angel cin hider.
and in
those days invited Vortigern (the) Angle race hither.
7 hi
þa comon on þrim ceolum hider to Brytene
and they
then came in three ships hither to Britain
on
þam stede Heopwines
fleot.
to the
harbor Ebbsfleet.
Se cyning
Wyrtgeorn gef heom land on suðan eastan þissum lande.
The king
Vortigern gave them land in the south east of this lande.
wiððan
þe hi sceoldon feohton wið Pyhtas.
on
condition that they should fight against (the) Picts.
He þa
fuhton wið
Pyhtas. 7 heofdon
sige swa hwer swa heo
comon.
They then
fought against the Picts. and (they) had victory wheresoever they came.
Hy þa sendon to Angle, heton sendon mara fultum.
With this
then (they) sent to the Angles, ordered (them) to send more aid.
7 heton heom secgan Brytwalana nahtscipe.
and (they)
ordered them to tell of the Britons worthlessness.
7 þes
landes cysta.
and of the
land's virtues.
He þa sona sendon hider
mare weored þam oðrum to fultume.
They then
immediately sent hither more army the others to help.
þa
comon þa men of þrim megðum Germanie.
Then came
the men from three tribes of Germania.
Of Ald
Seaxum. of
Anglum. of Iotum.
Of Old
Saxons. Of
Angles. Of Jutes.
991. Her wæs Gypeswic gehergod.
Here was
Ipswich harried.
7 æfter þam swyðe raðe wæs Brihtnoþ ealdorman ofslægan æt Mældune.
& after
that very
soon was Brythnoth alderman slain at Maldon.
7 on
þam geare man gerædde þt man geald ærest gafol Deniscan
mannum.
& in
that year man agreed that
man paid first tribute (to)
Danish men.
for
þam mycclan brogan þe hi worhtan be þam sæ riman.
for
the great terror that
they wrought by the sea coast.
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