The original "common stock" was likely compiled around under the direction of King Alfred the Great .
The Chronicle is not a single book but a series of related —year-by-year accounts—distributed to various monasteries for local updates. The Anglo-Saxon chronicle
The nine versions vary in content based on the biases and local interests of their respective monastic scribes: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - L.A. Smith Writer The original "common stock" was likely compiled around