Az Altaichi Évkönyv és a magyar krónikás hagyomány
The Annals of Altaich and the Hungarian Chronicle

Tradition Remarks on the Margin of a Historiographical Debate

Summary/Abstract: The annals which were written in the second half of the eleventh century in the Bavarian Benedictine abbey of Niederaltaich are regarded by the historical research as one of the most important sources of information about the decades following the death of Saint Stephen and the German-Hungarian wars of the period. The debate which went on in the German historical scholarship about the origins of the annals in the last third of the nineteenth century ended without conclusion, and no attempt was made later at trying to separate from each other the different redactions of the work. While the annals are frequently cited on account of their outstanding historical importance, Hungarian medieval studies have only partially relied on the results of the German research, and paid but sporadic attention to the relation between them and the Hungarian narrative tradition. Since the opinions formulated by the research diverge from each other in several points, the paper surveys whatever can be stated with more or less certainty in those questions which are raised in connection with the textual relations between the Bavarian source and the fourteenth-century Hungarian chronicle compilation.

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