The ''Annals of Fontenelle'' (''Annales Fontanellenses'', ''Chronicon Fontanellense'') or ''Chronicle of Saint-Wandrille'' (''Chronicon sancti Wandregesili'') is a short history compiled at the

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between 840 and 856.Jean Laporte, ed., "Annales Fontanellenses priores (Chronicon Fontanellense)", ''Mélanges de la Société d'Histoire de Normandie'', 15^e série (Rouen–Paris: 1951), pp 65–90. It is in

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form and its primarily concerns are local. The ''Annales'' are an important source for the raid of the

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chiefs Sidroc and

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in 856–58, and also for King

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's war with

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, the

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found the ''Annales'' to be generally unreliable with dates and dated their composition to after 872.Carroll Gillmor, "War on the Rivers: Viking Numbers and Mobility on the Seine and Loire, 841–886", ''Viator'', 19 (1988), p. 83 n. 18. A French translation of the ''Annales'' was published by Jean Laporte in the ''Mélanges de la Société d'Histoire de Normandie'' in 1951. An English translation by Christian Cooijmans was published as a special volume of ''Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies'' in 2022.Christian Cooijmans, trans.
"Annales Fontanellenses"
''Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies'', Special Volume II (2022).

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{{Reflist Norman chronicles 9th-century books in Latin