SWEET'S ANGLO-SAXON READER IN PROSE
ISBN: 9780198111696
Author | Sweet, Henry |
Pub Date | 28/08/1975 |
Binding | Paperback |
Pages | 418 |
Country | GBR |
Dewey | 829 |
Quick overview This popular reader-a standard since its first edition in 1876-helps students acquire a sound elementary knowledge Old English by studying of a rich variety of poetry and prose. Selections cover a wide range of dialects and genres, from an early Northumbrian form of Caedmon's Hymn and ninth-century Kentish charters to the complete texts of The Dream of the Rood and Wulfstan's Address to the English, with ample literary and historical notes.