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But both he and Gibson made the fatal error of trying to combine the disparate materials contained in the various chronicles in a single text. There is still, however, too much conflation, and owing to the plan of the volume, the edition only extends to 1066. A translation is appended. In 1861 appeared Benjamin Thorpe's six-text edition in the Rolls Series.

Various - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1