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■ #2871. 古英語期のスライド年表 [timeline][web_service][oe][anglo-saxon]

　「#2358. スライドできる英語史年表」 ([2015-10-11-1]) にならい，Mitchell (361--64) の古英語期の年表をスライド化してみました．以下の画像をクリックしてご覧ください．スライド年表では，出来事のジャンル別に Lay = 緑，Religious = 赤，Literary = 青で色分けしています．



　以下は，スライド年表のベースとした通常の表形式の年表です．参考までに．

Date	Lay	Religious	Literary
449	Traditional date of coming of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.		The legend of Arthur may rest on a British leader who resisted the invaders.
c. 547			Gildas writes De excidio Britanniæ.
560--616	Æthelbert King of Kent.
c. 563		St Columba brings Celtic Christianity to Iona.
597		St Augustine brings Roman Christianity to Kent.
616--632	Edwin King of Northumbria.
c. 625	Earliest possible date for Sutton Hoo ship-burial.
627		Edwin converted to Christianity.
632	Edwin killed by heathen King Penda of Mercia.
635		Aidan settles in Lindisfarne, bringing Celtic Christianity.
635		King Cynegils of Wessex converted.
641	Oswald King of Northumbria killed by Penda.
654	Penda killed by Oswy King of Northumbria.
664		Synod of Whitby establishes supremacy of Roman Christianity.
664		St Chad becomes bishop.
657--680		Hild Abbess of Whitby.	Cædmon uses Germanic alliterative verse for religious subjects during this period.
c. 678		English missions to the continent begin.
680			Approximate earliest date for composition of Beowulf.
c. 700			Date of first linguistic records.
709		Death of Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne.
731			Bede completes Historia gentis Anglorum ecclesiastica.
735		Death of Bede.
c. 735	Birth of Alcuin.
757--796	Offa King of Mercia.
782		Alcuin settles at Charlemagne's court.
793	Viking raids begin.	Sacking of Lindisfarne.
fl. 796			Nennius, author or reviser of Historia Britonum.
800	Four great kingdoms remain --- Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Wessex.
780--850			Cynewulf probably flourishes some time in this period.
804		Death of Alcuin.
851	Danes' first winter in England.
865	Great Danish Army lands in East Anglia.
867	Battle of York. End of Northumbria as a political power.
870	King Edmund of East Anglia killed by Danes. East Anglia overrun.
871	Alfred becomes King of Wessex.
874	Danes settle in Yorkshire.
877	Danes settle in East Mercia.
880	Guthrum and his men settle in East Anglia. Only Wessex remains of the four Kingdoms.
?886	Boundaries of Danelaw agreed with Guthrum. Alfred occupies London.		The period of the Alfredian translations and the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
892	Further Danish invasion.
896	Alfred builds a fleet.
899	Death of King Alfred.
899--954	The creation of the English Kingdom.
c. 909		Birth of Dunstan.
937	Battle of Brunanburh.		Poem commemorates the battle.
954	The extinction of the Scandinavian kingdom of York.
959--975	Edgar reigns.
960		Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury. The period of the Monastic Revival.
c. 971			The Blickling Homilies.
978 or 979	Murder of King Edward.
950--1000			Approximate dates of the poetry codices --- Junius MS, Vercelli Book, Exeter Book, and Beowulf MS.
978--1016	Ethelred reigns.
988		Death of Dunstan.
991	Battle of Maldon.		Poem commemorates the battle.
990--992			Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
993--998			Ælfric's Lives of the Saints.
1003--1023		Wulfstan Archbishop of York.
c. 1014			Sermo Lupi ad Anglos.
1005--c. 1012		Ælfric Abbot of Eynsham.
1013	Sweyn acknowledged as King of England.
1014	Sweyn dies.
1016	Edmund Ironside dies.
1016--1042	Canute and his sons reign.
1042--1066	Edward the Confessor.
1066	Harold King. Battle of Stamford Bridge. Battle of Hastings. William I king.

　・ Mitchell, Bruce. An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.

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