Question

Six versions of this work, alongside fragments from a lost seventh, are collected in the Rolls Series. The dating of events in this work has proven difficult due to it starting some years at Christmas instead of on January 1. (-5[1])The second continuation of this work’s E manuscript contains the first recorded use of the gendered pronoun “she.” A poem in this work celebrates the “Capture of the Five Boroughs.” Bishop (*) Asser used a recently-compiled copy of this work as a primary source for a biography of his patron. Along with Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, this is one of the two main sources for the history of a certain region between the end of Roman rule and the Norman conquest. For 10 points, name this Old English work which covers the history of the two central Germanic tribes in Britain. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [or the Winchester Chronicle; or the Abingdon Chronicle; or the Worcester Chronicle; or the Peterborough Chronicle; or the Easter Table Chronicle]
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Daniel SheinbergUG Championship Players (and Mazin)nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft39-5
Michael Kearneynats is supposed to mean you all have gone softUG Championship Players (and Mazin)13910

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