The Cambridge Old English Reader
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Description
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…
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Key features
- Includes fifty-seven texts, including a wide range of prose and verse passages
- Provides extensive annotation for each text, with glossing of words and phrases, and same-page modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem
- Contains a reference grammar of Old English, a guide to pronunciation, and a comprehensive glossary
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107295209
- Subjects Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature,English Language and Linguistics: General Interest,Language and Linguistics,Literature
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 14 May 2015
- ISBN: 9781107055308
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.97kg
- Contains: 1 b/w illus.
- Page extent: 614 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 06 April 2015
- ISBN: 9781107641310
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.87kg
- Contains: 1 b/w illus.
- Page extent: 614 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 28 May 2018
- ISBN: 9781107295209
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