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So-called Annals of Xanten

Annales qui dicuntur Xantenses · Anonymous (Xanten, later Egmond) · entries 790-874, with a supplement for 640-789; compiled late 9th century · 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 Xantenses' returns 8 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Annales%20Xantenses&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 the MGH editions of 1909 and 1979 (whose contents note gives the range 'a. 790-823 (874)' plus a supplement 'a. 640-789'), a Brepols edition of 2025, and a Dutch volume, Annalen van Egmond (Verloren, 2007), which translates the annals into Dutch. No English translation exists, whole or partial, in the catalogue. The Latin is at dMGH, SS rer. Germ. 12 (https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_rer_germ_12/index.htm#page/(1)).

A Rhineland annal for the age of Louis the Pious and his sons, with the Viking raids on the lower Rhine and Frisia and a famous passage on the translation of St Marsus. It is one of the few non-royal, non-Fulda witnesses to the 830s-870s, and it is closed to English readers.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Annalen van Egmond: de Annales Egmundenses tezamen met de Annales Xantenses en het Egmondse leven van Thomas Becket · 2007
language: nl · Dutch translation of the annals with the Egmond material

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: So-called Annals of Xanten — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “So-called Annals of Xanten” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-anonymus-annales-xantenses