num_pages: 418
description: 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.
language: English
title: Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse
titlecomplete: Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse
genres: Medieval, Classics, Language, History, Anglo Saxon, Linguistics, Nonfiction, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 61
publisher: Oxford University Press