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Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse - Sweet, Henry, and Whitelock, Dorothy (Revised by)
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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.

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Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse 1975, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198111696

English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
15th edition

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