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Building on Jonathan Pageau's work on Universal History, I would say that this is a fairly complete list of chronicles that establish each country's place within the context of Christian history:

Europe:

Britain (The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth)
Ireland (The Book of Invasions)
Spain (The Poem of the Cid)
Portugal (The Lusiads by Luís de Camões)
France (The Song of Roland)
Germany (The Nibelungenlied)
Italy (The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri)
Denmark (The Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus)
Norway (The Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson)
Sweden (The Chronicle of Duke Eric)
Finland (The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot)
Russia (The Primary Chronicle of Kievan Rus by Saint Nestor the Chronicler)
Georgia (The Georgian Chronicle)
Armenia (The History of Armenia by Movses Khorenatsi)
Poland (Gesta Principum Polonorum by Gallus Anonymus)
Czechia (The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague)
Hungary (The Gesta Hungarorum)

Byzantium (Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, Procopius' Secret History, Digenes Akritas)

Africa:

Egypt (The Legend of Hilaria)
Ethiopia (The Kebra Nagast)

Asia:

China (The Monks of Kublai Khan by Rabban Bar Sauma)
India (The Precious Pearl: The Lives of Saints Barlaam and Ioasaph by Saint John of Damascus)

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