 [ C ] includes additional material from local annals at Abingdon , where it was composed . The section containing the Chronicle ( folios 115 – 64 ) is preceded by King Alfred 's Old English translation of Orosius 's world history , followed by a menologium and some gnomic verses of the laws of the natural world and of humanity . Then follows a copy of the chronicle , beginning with 60 BC ; the first scribe copied up to the entry for 490 , and a second scribe took over up to the entry for 1048 . [ B ] and [ C ] are identical between 491 and 652 , but differences thereafter make it clear that the second scribe was also using another copy of the Chronicle . This scribe also inserted , after the annal for 915 , the Mercian Register , which covers the years 902 – 924 , and which focuses on Æthelflæd . The manuscript continues to 1066 and stops in the middle of the description of the Battle of Stamford Bridge . In the 12th century a few lines were added to complete the account . 
