A second Anglo-Saxon reader; archaic and dialectal

Henry Sweet

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A SECOND
ANGLO-SAXON READER
SWEETHENRY FROWDE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE
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A SECOND
ANGLO-SAXON READER
ARCHAIC AND DIALECTAL
BY
HENRY M.A.SWEET,
BALLIOL OXFORD '. HON. PH. D. HEIDELBERGCOLLEGE,
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1887
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137PREFACE.
MY First Reader forAnglo-Saxon is, practical reasons,
restricted to the West-Saxon dialect. But the other Old-
dialects are of if not even more value to theEnglish equal
historical student of Hence the of aEnglish. necessity sup-
archaic and dialectal Reader. Theplementary primary object
of the book to the asstudentpresent is, giveaccordingly,
far as the often materials will allow the means ofscanty
himself with the features of themaking acquainted leading
non-West-Saxon dialects of Old English.
As the texts are intended for students,mainly linguistic
are taken from which are inthosethey exclusively preserved
as in the case ofcontemporary contemporary,(or practically
the Erfurt MSS. As this book is of no use exceptglossary)
for advanced I have it advisable tostudents, thought print
the texts as in the and haveexactly they appear MSS.,
therefore refrained from theoretical accents.adding any
contractions are in italics. Letters notExpanded printed
in the MSS. are in Erasures are markedenclosed []. by(:).
A star calls attention to an erroneous or anomalousprefixed
thus to 'sic/ In theform, being equivalent glossaries
corrections of the Latin forms are added in
).(
Another of this book is to serve as a andobject cheap
1
of Oldest Texts' a work,handy abridgment my English
whose bulk it theand costliness the reach ofputs beyond
which has inducedstudent. It is this considerationordinary
me to include the whole of the andEpinal-Erfurt Corpus
unsuited as are for theglossaries, they undoubtedly purpose
ofan Reader. Studentswhose is toordinary object merely get
a therefore advised not toidea of the aregeneral dialects,
to read these but to out thoseattempt through, pickglossaries
1
Text no. &Early English Society Publications, 83, 1885 (Trubner
Co., London).iv PREFACE.
words which in the first orthey easily recognize twenty pages
and concentrate their attention on them. Note that theso,
Erfurt inwords in the italics areEnglish glossaryprinted partial
or of the Old GermanGermanisms scribe.complete High
All the texts are in themselves with thecomplete exception
ofthe extracts from the Liber Vitae and the Durham and(4)
The inRushworth the Psalterglosses (8). Hymns Vespasian
are in no extracts from the Psalms themselvesgiven full, being
given.
The are taken thetexts from Oldestfollowing English
Texts : with the first
i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, together thirty
whose numbers in the Oldest Texts arecharters, English
added in The extracts from the Durham andparentheses.
Rushworth are taken from the new edition inGospels (8, 9)
Prof. sheets of which hepreparation by Skeat, proof very
at for the work. Thekindly placed my disposal present
Kentish Glosses are from Prof. edition(10) mainly Zupitza's
in fromZeitschrift. The charters to the end areHaupt's 31
from I made some in nowof acopies years pursuanceago,
abandoned intention of a collection of theediting post-
Alfredian charters. The student must be warned that the
dialectal element in these later charters is often
strongly
mixed with if not almost entirely supplanted literaryby
Saxonisms.
Not to increase the bulk of thiswishing indefinitely work,
or its I have in this first editiondelay publication, given
the texts without orsimply grammatical introduction, notes,
Now that Sievers's Grammar hasglossary. Anglo-Saxon
been made accessible to the reader in Cook'sEnglish
the first be almosttranslation, would, indeed, superfluous.
What form notesthe and will take in futureglossary any
I cannot atedition, This willsay present. depend mainly
on the direction of own which willmy studies, again partly
on external circumstances over which I have but adepend
limited control.
HENRY SWEET.
MORTHOE, September i, 1887.