Author: James Wilson Bright
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Author: James Wilson Bright
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: Richard Marsden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316240320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old English' section for newcomers to the Old English language, along with a new extract from Beowulf. The fifty-seven individual texts include established favourites such as The Battle of Maldon and Wulfstan's Sermon of the Wolf, as well as others not otherwise readily available, such as an extract from Apollonius of Tyre. Modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem are provided on the same page as the text, along with extensive notes. A succinct reference grammar is appended, along with guides to pronunciation and to grammatical terminology. A comprehensive glossary lists and analyses all the Old English words that occur in the book. Headnotes to each of the six text sections, and to every individual text, establish their literary and historical contexts, and illustrate the rich cultural variety of Anglo-Saxon England. This second edition is an accessible and scholarly introduction to Old English.

Author: Henry Sweet
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Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Author: Henry Sweet
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Category : Anglo-Saxon language
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Robert E. Diamond
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814315101
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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This book makes learning Old English easy. It contains a simplified grammar, a minimum of phonology, well-chosen selections from Old English prose, and rich selections from Old English poetry. The texts are in regularized spelling, based on Early West Saxon, so that beginners will not have to wrestle with a shifting orthography. All texts come with facing-page literal translations. The prose selections include: "The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan"; "The Story of King Cynewulf of Wessex"; "The Wars of King Alfred against the Vikings"; and King Alfred's Preface to Cura Pastoralis. The poetry includes: Caedmon's "Hymn" from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Battle of Brunanburg; The Battle of Maldon; The Dream of Rood from the Vercelli Book; The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Wife's Lament, The Storm Riddles, The Panther, and The Whale from The Exeter Book.

Author: J. W. Bright
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Languages : en
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Author: James Wilson Bright
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: James Wilson Bright
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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