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9780198111696
This popular reader--a standard since its first edition in 1876--helpsstudents acquire a sound elementary knowledge Old English by studying of a richvariety of poetry and prose. Selections cover a wide range of dialects andgenres, from an early Northumbrian form of Caedmon's Hymn and ninth-centuryKentish charters to the complete texts of The Dream of the Rood and Wulfstan'sAddress to the English, with ample literary and historical notes.Sweet, Henry is the author of 'Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse', published 1975 under ISBN 9780198111696 and ISBN 019811169X.
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