My work on transitional Old/Middle English started with the late entries of the Peterborough Chronicle (MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 636), a fantastically important text to which I seem to turn every so often when working on early Middle English/the long twelfth century.

Select publications:

  • Bergs, Alexander & Janne Skaffari (eds.). 2007. The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 20). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
  • Skaffari, Janne. 2002. The non-native vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle. In Lucas, P.J. & A.M. Lucas (eds.). Middle English from Tongue to Text. Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Middle English: Language and Text, held at Dublin, Ireland, 1–4 July 1999 (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 4). Frankfurt am Main etc.: Peter Lang, 235-246.
  • Skaffari, Janne. 2017. Malasree Home, The Peterborough Version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Rewriting  Post-Conquest History. Book review. The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 17.

I am also collating a ‘Peterborough Chronicle Bibliography’, which will be made available in 2024.