Chapter Christ and His Apostles to Chroniclers of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

across by him, but proved so heavy that Offerus, though a huge giant, was well-nigh borne down by the weight. This child was Jesus, who changed the giant’s name to Christoferus, “bearer of Christ.” He died three days afterwards, and was canonized.

Like the great giant Christopher, it stands Upon the brink of the tempestuous wave.
   —Longfellow: The Lighthouse.

Christopher, the head-waiter in Somebody’s Luggage, a tale by Dickens (1864).

Chronicle (The), a relation, in eight-syllable verse, of the poet’s various sweethearts.—Cowley (1618–1667).

Chronicle (The Saxon), an historical prose work in Anglo-Saxon, down to the reign of Henry II., A.D. 1154.

Chroniclers (Anglo-Norman), a series of writers on British history, in verse, of very early date. Geffroy Gaimar wrote his Anglo-Norman chronicle before 1146. It is a history, in verse, of the Anglo-Saxon kings. Robert Wace wrote the Bru d’Angleterre [i.e. Chronicle of England] in eight-syllable verse, and presented his work to Henry II. It was begun in 1160, and finished in 1170.

Latin Chroniclers, historical writers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Rhyming Chroniclers, a series of writers of English history from the thirteenth century. The most noted are: Layamon (called “the Eng lish Ennius”) bishop of Ernleye-upon-Severn (1216). Robert of Gloucester, who wrote a narrative of Briti sh history, from the landing of Brute to the close of the reign of Henry III. (* to 1272). No date is a ssigned to the coming of Brute, but he was the son of Silvius Æneas (the third generation from Æneas who escaped from Troy, B.C. 1183), so that the date may be assumed to be B.C. 1028, thus giving a scope of 2300 years to the chronicle. (The verse of this chronicle is eight and six syllables displayed together, so as to form lines of fourteen syllables each.) Robert de Brunne, whose chronicle is in two parts. The first ends with the death of Cadwallader, and the second with the death of Edward I. The earlier parts are similar to the Anglo-Norman chronicle of Wace. (The verse is octo- syllabic.) John Harding wrote a chronicle, in rhyme, down to the reign of Edward IV. (1470); it was edited by sir Henry Ellis, in 1812.