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Introduction to Anglo-Saxon: An Anglo-Saxon Reader, with Philological Notes, a Brief Grammar, and a Vocabulary (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Enough 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.
In this edition a brief grammar has been introduced, that it may be fitted for general use as an introduction to the study of anglo-saxon inhigh Schools and Academies where they might fear the Comparative Grammar. The etymological part of the Vocabulary is reserved for a future edition. It was thought best to make sure of the completeness of the list of words by working it over in class before giving it its final shape.
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