| All the native annalists are jejune to an exasperating degree. |
| Frankish annalists of the 8th century often refer to Danish kings. |
| Still, Gracchan annalists have produced interesting insight into the writer's own time, if not necessarily into the time on which they wrote. |
| The annalists say compendiously that Armagh was burned twice in one month by Thomas Sussex. |
| Apart from his unhistorical approach, Livy has also been attacked for failing to be critical of his sources, particularly Roman annalists. |
| As annalists, tabulators of losses and gains, commentators on the future of states and societies, we emphasise its first sense too heavily. |
