Editing Primary Chronicle (section)

== Translations ==
[[August Ludwig von Schlözer]] produced a German translation with commentary of the ''Povest' vremennykh let'' through 980 in five volumes (''Hecтopъ. Russische Annalen in ihrer Slavonischen Grund–Sprache''. Göttingen, 1802–1809).{{sfn|Maiorov|2018|p=322}}

In 1930, [[Harvard University|Harvard]] professor Samuel Hazzard Cross published an English translation of the Laurentian Codex's version of the PVL under the title ''The Russian Primary Chronicle. Laurentian Text.'', which became very influential amongst American readers.{{sfn|Lunt|1988|p=10}} Cross was working on a revised edition when he died; it was completed and published by [[Georgetown University]] professor Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor in 1953.{{sfn|Cross|Sherbowitz-Wetzor|1953|loc=Preface}} By the early 21st century, ''Primary Chronicle'' had become the common shortened English name for the text shared by the surviving five main manuscripts of the PVL.{{sfn|Isoaho|2018|p=637}} Nevertheless, Cross' translation was often found  inaccurate, with Waugh (1974) writing that Perfecky (1973) had produced a more reliable English translation of the ''[[Galician–Volhynian Chronicle]]'' than how Cross translated the PVL.{{sfn|Waugh|1974|p=769–771}}

The 2001 German translation by Ludolf Müller has been called 'without doubt the best available rendering of the PVL into a modern language'.{{sfn|Gippius|2014|p=342}} The 2015 Dutch translation by Hans Thuis (begun with Victoria van Aalst since 2000) was based on the main six textual witnesses, scholarly publications by Müller, Likhachev and Ostrowski, and by comparison to the German translation of Trautmann (1931), the English translation of Cross & Sherbowitz-Wetzor (1930, 1953), the Russian translation of Likhachev (1950), and the German translation of Müller (2001).{{sfn|Thuis|2015|pp=281–282}}