Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse

ISBN-13: 9780198111696 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 418 str.

Henry Sweet

Opis

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.