# Old English Chronicles

Author: Giles, J. A. (John Allen), 1808-1884 [Editor]

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37848

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Old+English+Chronicles+Giles&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Whilst occupied on many and various studies, I happened to light upon the History of the Kings of Britain, and wondered that in the account which Gildas and Bede, in their elegant treatises, had given of them, I found nothing said of those kings who lived here before the Incarnation of Christ, nor of Arthur, and many others who succeeded after the Incarnation; though their actions both deserved immortal fame, and were also celebrated by many people in a pleasant manner and by heart, as if they had been written. Whilst I was intent upon these and such like thoughts, Walter, archdeacon of Oxford,[147] a man of great eloquence, and learned in foreign histories, offered me a very ancient book...

## Chapters

- [BOOK XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/12/index.md)
- [BOOK II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/13/index.md)
- [BOOK VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/8/index.md)
- [BOOK VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/6/index.md)
- [BOOK IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/9/index.md)
- [BOOK I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/4/index.md)
- [BOOK X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/10/index.md)
- [BOOK V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/5/index.md)
- [BOOK III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/3/index.md)
- [BOOK VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/7/index.md)
- [BOOK II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/2/index.md)
- [BOOK XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-chronicles-37848/chapters/11/index.md)