Introduction to Anglo-Saxon

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Excerpt from Introduction to Anglo-Saxon: An Anglo-Saxon Reader, With Philological Notes, a Brief Grammar, and a VocabularyEnough such extracts for two terms' work are here given in a critical text. The notes contain, besides explanatory matter, outlines of the literature, biographical sketches of the authors, and bibliographical notices of manuscripts and editions. The author's Comparative Grammar Opens with a history of the language, and illustrates the grammatical forms by those of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Friesic, Old Norse, and old-high German. It is part of the plan to give a full etymological vocabulary. Thus it is supposed that appara tus is provided for as thorough study of a portion of this tongue as can be given to Greek or Latin with our college text-books.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.