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Nevertheless, it is not for us to guestimate the workload of an annalist of the Floridian ancien regime.

It was so often plundered by them that it is hardly to be wondered at that the annalists should not have been able to keep account of every time it was harried by the Northmen.

The monks… were the only annalists in those ages.

In his writing he endeavored to round out his work into a real history and to give more than the bare outline of events characteristic of the medi�val annalists.

The silence of our annalists is thus accounted for to a great extent by the long residence of B. Thaddeus abroad.