This volume, like the others in the collaborative edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, has as its aim a semi-diplomatic edition of one version of the Chronicle, and the editorial conventions in this volume mainly conform to those of the other volumes. Hence the text of the manuscript is faithfully reproduced, with the following exceptions.

Abbreviations are silently expanded (except & or and in the Old English; in the Latin it has been expanded to et). It is hoped that the disadvantages of this practice for linguistic study will be countered by a detailed outlining of the abbreviations used by the scribes at pp. xxiv–xxviii above, and by the availability of a facsimile edition of the manuscript where individual usages can be readily checked. Accents are not reproduced.

Punctuation is modern, a convention which I have accepted with some reluctance, sharing as I do Mitchell's concern that modern punctuation may distort the flow of Old English writing. In my punctuation of the text, I have attempted to reflect the scribes’ relatively straightforward, if not entirely consistent, punctuating procedures by bearing in mind throughout the principle which Mitchell and I used elsewhere in relation to the punctuation of Old English poetry: ‘No punctuation where the sense is clear without any.’ In the case of the co-ordinate conjunction &, I have used no conjunction where the subject remains the same over two clauses; where the subject changes and there is no connection save chronology between the two clauses I have generally begun a new sentence; where the subject changes but there is a clear connection between the two clauses I have used a comma, semi-colon, or no punctuation depending on the context. In deciding where to place sentence breaks I have occasionally been guided by manuscript punctuation.

Capitalization is also modern; the conventions of the collaborative edition specify lower case for proper adjectives. Where the scribes use uncials or capitals within words these are normalized to lower case. Word division is modern and follows established convention as far as possible. The Old English letter-forms Æ, æ, *, 0, Ð, ð, Þ, and þ are printed but wynn is replaced by the modern character w. Both V and v have generally been normalized to U and u. The exception is in the context of Roman numerals (mainly dates) where v is always used for manuscript u or v.