The Annals of Fontenelle (Annales Fontanellenses,Sometimes Annales Fontanellenses priores ("first annals") or Annales Fontanellenses maiores ("major annals"), to distinguish them from the contemporary Gesta abbatum Fontanellensium or the twelfth-century Annales de Saint-Wandrille (Chronicon Thosanum). Chronicon Fontanellense) or Chronicle of Saint-Wandrille (Chronicon sancti Wandregesili) is a short history compiled at the Abbey of Saint-Wandrille between 840 and 856.Jean Laporte, ed., "Annales Fontanellenses priores (Chronicon Fontanellense)", Mélanges de la Société d'Histoire de Normandie, 15e série (Rouen–Paris: 1951), pp 65–90. It is in annalistic form and its primarily concerns are local.
The Annales are an important source for the raid of the Viking chiefs Sidroc and Bjørn in 856–58, and also for King Charles the Bald's war with Nominoe, the duke of Brittany.Léon Levillain, "La Marche de Bretagne, ses marquis et ses comtes", Annales de Bretagne, 58, 1 (1951), pp 89–117. Ferdinand Lot found the Annales to be generally unreliable with dates and dated their composition to after 872.Carroll Gillmor, "War on the Rivers: Viking Numbers and Mobility on the Seine and Loire, 841–886", Viator, 19 (1988), p. 83 n. 18.
A French translation of the Annales was published by Jean Laporte in the Mélanges de la Société d'Histoire de Normandie in 1951. An English translation by Christian Cooijmans was published as a special volume of Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies in 2022.Christian Cooijmans, trans., "Annales Fontanellenses", Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies, Special Volume II (2022).
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