Examples+Chronicle

"One of them was Swithulf, bishop of Rochester; also Ceolmund, ealdorman in Kent, Beorhtulf, ealdorman in Essex, Wulfred, ealdorman in Hampshire, Ealhheard, bishop of Corchester, Eadulf, king's thane in Sussex, Beornulf, reeve of Winchester, Ecgulf, king's horse-thane, and many others also, though I have named the most distinguished." (page 80)

This is a detailed description of the important people in Britain. It gets right to the poinht and is very dry and direct. There is no extra information that makes the reader feel light and cheery. It is more of a historical work.

"The the kind commanded men to go there with nine of the new ships, and they went in fron of them at the riber's mouth in the open sea. The Danes went out qwith the three ships against them, and three stood higher up than the river's mouth, beaches on dry land; the men from them had goen inland. The English took two of their three ships at the river's mouth, further out, killed the men, and one ship got away-and also on that all the men were killed but five...There were killed Lucumon the king's reeve, Wilfheard the Frisian, Aebbe the Frisian, Aethelhere the Frisian, Athelferth of the king's household, and in all, Frisians and English, sixty-two, and one hundred and twenty of the Danes." (page 80)