id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5859 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Wikipedia .html text/html 7764 691 72 The scribe wrote the year number, DCCCXCII, in the margin of the next line; subsequent material was written by other scribes.[7] This appears to place the composition of the chronicle at no later than 892; further evidence is provided by Bishop Asser's use of a version of the Chronicle in his work Life of King Alfred, known to have been composed in 893.[8] It is known that the Winchester manuscript is at least two removes from the original Chronicle; as a result, there is no proof that the Chronicle was compiled at Winchester.[9] It is also difficult to fix the date of composition, but it is generally thought that the chronicles were composed during the reign of Alfred the Great (871–99), as Alfred deliberately tried to revive learning and culture during his reign, and encouraged the use of English as a written language. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5859.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5859.txt