The Anglo Saxon Chronology

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i became a mediaevalist in the sense of the moment in my undergraduate career. i was maybe 19 or 20 sitt there with this edition of the source i didn't really understand. I want to dive into this world head first. This isnt masonwor. It was the spart. A and snore, for people don't know snory sterlison snerleson, i can never quite get his last name. Is is e really the reason aa mediaeval icelandic monk. And he's the reason that we have a lot of these northmis nor smiths preserved in the forms that they hare,. They're preserved in other ways too

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