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.
| ISBN: | 9780198111696 |
| Publication date: | 28th August 1975 |
| Author: | Henry Sweet |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 420 pages |
| Genres: |
Language readers |