An elementary Old English reader, early West Saxon

Wyatt Alfred John 1858-

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[All Rights reserved.]AN ELEMENTARY
OLD ENGLISH EEADEB
WEST(EAELY SAXON)
EDITED BY
ALFRED J. WYATT,
M.A. ET(CANTAB. LONDIN.),
SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE :
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1908Ito?
1901.First Edition,
1908.Reprinted,PREFACE.
as anTHIS book is intended, introductoryprimarily,
the of OldReader for those who are studybeginning
to be used in with elementarymyEnglish, conjunction
is like theOld Grammar. It Grammar,therefore,English
haveWest Saxon. Hitherto beginnersentirely Early
andlearn West Saxonhad to grammarusually Early
latter sometimesto read Late West Saxon thetexts,
It isnormalised to conform with the surelygrammar.
make use of the if notbetter to abundant,sufficient,
West Saxon.material available in unnormalised Early
For this an editor's choice is limited to thepurpose
earlier entries in the Parker MS. of the andChronicle,
and of the Curato Alfred's translations of Orosius
Pastoralis. But the whole of West Saxon prosebody
offers no of and I that this
;great variety styles hope
three textsvolume show that the restriction tomay
has not robbed it of interest or and that a purevariety,
West Reader was worthSaxonEarly compiling.
from EarleThe extracts from the Chronicle are taken
and Plummer's edition occasional reference to the(with
MS. in the of Christi thoseunique library Corpus College),VI PREFACE.
from Orosius and the Cum Pastoralis from Dr Sweet's
editions for the Text haveEarly English Society. They
been and and in aentirely carefully repunctuated, very
few the MS. has been altered with aplaces reading
view to difficulties out of theremoving beginner's way.
The accents in the text are those of the MSS. allonly ;
vowels will be found so marked in thelong Glossary.
Both for the sake of the and with a viewbeginner
'
to the best in I have asfurnishing practice Unseens,'
far as the of thepossible extracts,graded difficulty partly
the amount of in the Notes.by decreasing help given
The of the earliest annals from the Chronicleonly difficulty
is their disconnectedness form the easiest
; they probably
obtainable in Oldpractice English.
A few words about the The of theGlossary. bugbear
Old is initial There is noEnglish glossarist ge-. way
of with it that is not to seriousdealing open objections.
The now of all wordsusual,practice, printing together
with is inasmuch as itvicious,beginning ge- separates
all such words from those with which arethey etymo-
connected. I have therefore Dr Sweet'slogically adopted
method of initial in the of the
ignoring ge- arrangement
where it will be found e orGlossary, printed "(g )" "ge"
with this distinction: when it has no"(ge)" assignable
when it is sometimes found with aforce, word,particular
and sometimes with no of mean-differencenot, apparent
broca and 11. when it46, 8,ing (e.g. gebroca, p. 9); "ge"
has or is found to aforce,assignable invariably prefixed
word and in the(seeparticular e.g. geascian geweald
Glossary).
The most aof book of this character isimportant part
the and those alone find out whether it is aGlossary, good