The spare nature of the earliest chronicles is illustrated by the following excerpt from the chronicle of St. Gall monastery in Switzerland: 720 Charles fought against the Saxons.
His current research project is an investigation of the manifold chronological problems in the earliest chronicles of Korea and Japan, the Samguk sagi and the Nihon shoki.
The earliest chronicles and hymns of the Aryan peoples of ancient India, the Rigveda, composed about 1500 bce, mention the river, which is the source of the country's name.
The earliest chronicles were in Greek and Syriac, and were written by Agathangelos, Zenob of Glak and Phaustus Puzant.
Moreover, this account of Radu Negru's 'dismounting' may merely be a legend subsequently invented to parallel the circumstances by which Moldavia, the other Romanian principality was founded according to the earliest chronicles.
Shakespeare, perhaps collaborating with others, doesn't always avoid the tub-thumping style of earlier chronicle plays, or their pro-Tudor historiography.
Ms. Yazbek, 42, collapsed, only to be yanked to her feet to continue the butchery tour, which competes for the most harrowing day detailed in the book, a rare early chronicle of the revolution from inside.
Although avoiding stress on 12th-century Scottish "barbarity", the Lowland Scottish historians of the later Middle Ages tend to repeat the accounts of earlier chronicle tradition.
The Chronica de origine civitatis was composed sometime before 1231, but there is little comparison between this work and Villani's; mid-20th-century historian Nicolai Rubinstein states that the legendary accounts in this earlier chronicle were "arbitrarily selected by a compiler whose learning and critical faculties were considerably below the standard of his age".
Clues from early chronicles of the Incas were scanty.
Early chronicles typically record events with the formula, "In this year x, also y" (e.g., "In this year dragons appeared in the sky, also the Vikings arrived").
