 The Chronicle is not without literary interest . Inserted at various points since the 10th century are Old English poems in celebration of royal figures and their achievements : " The Battle of Brunanburh " ( 937 ) , on King Æthelstan 's victory over the combined forces of Vikings , Scots and the Strathclyde Britons , and five shorter poems , " Capture of the Five Boroughs " ( 942 ) , " The Coronation of King Edgar " ( 973 ) , " The Death of King Edgar " ( 975 ) , " The Death of Prince Alfred " ( 1036 ) , and " The Death of King Edward the Confessor " ( 1065 ) . 
