Annals of St Vaast

Annales Vedastini · Anonymous (St Vaast, Arras) · entries 874-900; compiled c. 900 · chronicle

Latin · domain: latin-historiography · researched 2026-11-14

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS 'Annales Vedastini' returns 7 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Annales%20Vedastini&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 all Latin or continental: the MGH editions of 1909 and 1979 (contents note 'Annales vedastini a. 874 (873)-899 (900)'), a Brepols edition, the German rendering in Die Annalen von St. Bertin und St. Vaast (1890) and the French volume of 1871. There is no English translation in the catalogue, although the annals are the principal narrative for the Viking siege of Paris and the deposition of Charles the Fat. The Latin is at dMGH, SS rer. Germ. 12 (https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_rer_germ_12/index.htm#page/(40)).

The main source for the years 874-900 in northern Francia: the siege of Paris, the end of the Carolingian empire in 888 and the first Robertian kings. The Annals of St-Bertin stop in 882 and are fully translated; the St-Vaast continuation that carries the story to 900 is not, so the English narrative of the collapse simply breaks off.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Die Annalen von St. Bertin und St. Vaast · Die Geschichtschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit · 1890 language: de · German translation of the Annals of St Vaast with those of St Bertin
Les annales de Saint-Bertin et de Saint-Vaast, suivies de fragments d'une chronique inédite · 1871 language: fr · French translation of the Annals of St Vaast with those of St Bertin

Electronic text

Source and licence
dmgh · PDF scan · public domain (MGH edition, 1909) mgh_ss_rer_germ_12

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: "Annals of St Vaast" — 1 record(s); match basis author_title.

Record	Citation
Carolingian civilization : a reader · 2004 · eng	"Carolingian civilization : a reader." Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, 2004. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990095454990203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Annals of St Vaast” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-anonymus-annales-vedastini