Short dated entries from Lund, the archbishop's seat, and from Ryd in Schleswig. Around 1200 they note the deaths of Absalon (1201) and of leading men, King Knud VI's war with Count Adolf of Holstein and the taking of Holstein and Lübeck in 1201, Danish lordship over Pomerania and Rügen, and the Ingeborg affair in France. The Lund annals are the nearest thing to a Danish court record for the year.
About this source
- Title
- Annales Lundenses; Annales Ryenses; the other Danish annals
- Author
- Anonymous
- Author's dates
- clerks of Lund cathedral, monks of Ryd and other Danish houses
- Written
- 12th and 13th centuries; Lund continued to 1307, Ryd to 1288
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- various, to the late 13th century
- Kind
- Annals
Jørgensen 1920 is the standard collected edition and was not found online in this task; the MGH texts serve.
Where to read it
Editions
- G. Waitz (ed.), Annales Lundenses, MGH Scriptores 29 (Hanover 1892)
- G. H. Pertz (ed.), Annales Ryenses, MGH Scriptores 16 (Hanover 1859), pp. 386 to 410
- E. Jørgensen (ed.), Annales Danici medii aevi (Copenhagen 1920); no free copy located (not freely online)