新学期の古英語の授業も少しずつ軌道に乗ってきた．時代背景を理解するために，この辺りでアングロサクソン時代の略年表を掲げたい．すでに「#2526. 古英語と中英語の文学史年表」 ([2016-03-27-1])，「#2871. 古英語期のスライド年表」 ([2017-03-07-1])，「#3193. 古英語期の主要な出来事の年表」 ([2018-01-23-1]) で類似の年表を掲げているが，バリエーションがあったほうがよいと考えているので今回は Godden and Lapidge (xii--xiii) からの略年表を再現する．

Chronological table of the Anglo-Saxon period

from c. 400	Germanic peoples settle in Britain
c. 540	Gildas in De excidio Britanniae laments the effects of the Germanic settlements on the supine Britons
597	St Augustine arrives in Kent to convert the English
616	death of Æthelberht, king of Kent
c. 625	ship-burial at Sutton Hoo (mound 1)
633	death of Edwin, king of Northumbria
635	Bishop Aidan established in Lindisfarne
642	death of Oswald, king of Northumbria
664	Synod of Whitby
669	Archbishop Theodore and Abbot Hadrian arrive in Canterbury
674	monastery of Monkwearmouth founded
682	monastery of Jarrow founded
687	death of St Cuthbert
689	death of Cædwalla, king of Wessex
690	death of Archbishop Theodore
c. 700	'Lindisfarne Gospels' written and decorated
709	deaths of Bishops Wilfrid and Aldhelm
716--57	Æthelbald king of Mercia
731	Bede completes his Ecclesiastical History
735	death of Bede
754	death of St Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary in Germany
757--96	Offa king of Mercia
781	Alcuin of York meets Charlemagne in Parma and thereafter leaves York for the Continent
793	Vikings attack Lindisfarne
802--39	Ecgberht king of Wessex
804	death of Alcuin
839--56	Æthelwulf king of Wessex
869	Vikings defeat and kill Edmund, king of East Anglia
871--99	Alfred the Great king of Wessex
878	Alfred defeats the Viking army at the battle of Edington, and the Vikings settle in East Anglia (879--80)
899--924	Edward the Elder king of Wessex
924--39	Athelstan king of Wessex and first king of All England
937	battle of Brunanburh: Athelstan defeats an alliance of Scots and Scandinavians
957--75	Edgar king of England
859--88	Dunstan archbishop at Canterbury
963--84	Æthelwold bishop at Winchester
964	secular clerics expelled from the Old Minster, Winchester, and replaced by monks
971--92	Oswald archbishop at York
973	King Edgar crowned at Bath
978--1016	Æthelred 'the Unready' king of England
975--7	Abbo of Fleury at Ramsey
991	battle of Maldon: the Vikings defeat an English army led by Byrhtnoth
c. 1010	death of Ælfric, abbot of Eynsham
1011	Byrhtferth's Enchiridion
1013	the English submit to Swein, king of Denmark
1016--35	Cnut king of England
1023	death of Wulfstan, archbishop of York
1042--66	Edward the Confessor king of England
1066	battle of Hastings: the English army led by Harold is defeated by the Norman army led by William the Conqueror

　・ Godden, Malcolm and Michael Lapidge, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. Cambridge: CUP, 1986.

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