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Preface | |
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List of abbreviations | |
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Introduction | |
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The writing and pronunciation of Old English | |
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Teaching and learning | |
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In the Schoolroom (from AElfric's Colloquy) | |
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A Personal Miscellany (from AElfwine's Prayerbook) | |
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A Divinatory Alphabet | |
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The Moon and Tide | |
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The Age of the Virgin | |
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Medicinal Remedies (from Bald's Leechbook) | |
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For Dimness of the Eyes | |
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For Vomiting | |
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For Dysentery | |
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Learning Latin (from AElfric's Excerptiones de arte grammatica anglice) | |
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A New Beginning (Alfred's preface to his translation of Gregory's Cura pastoralis) | |
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The Wagonwheel of Fate (from Alfred's translation of Boethius's De consolatione Philosophiae) | |
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Keeping a record | |
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Laws of the Anglo-Saxon Kings | |
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AEthelberht of Kent (c. 614) | |
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Alfred of Wessex (c. 890) | |
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AEthelred of England (1014) | |
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England under Attack (from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: annals for 981-93, 995-8 and 1002-3) | |
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People | |
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The Founding of England | |
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The Miracle of Caedmon | |
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The Battle of Brunanburh | |
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The Will of AElfgifu | |
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The Fonthill Letter | |
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Spreading the Word | |
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After the Flood (from the Old English Hexateuch: Gen 8.6-18 and 9.8-13) | |
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The Crucifixion (from the Old English Gospels: Mt 27.11-54) | |
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King Alfred's Psalms | |
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Psalm 1 | |
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Psalm 12 | |
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Psalm 22 | |
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A Translator's Problems (AElfric's preface to his translation of Genesis) | |
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Satan's Challenge (Genesis B, lines 338-441) | |
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The Drowning of Pharaoh's Army (Exodus, lines 447-564) | |
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Judith | |
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Example and Exhortation | |
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Bede's Death Song | |
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Northumbrian version | |
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West-Saxon version | |
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Two Holy Women | |
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Saint AEthelthryth (from AElfric's Lives of Saints) | |
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Saint Eugenia (from the Old English Martyrology) | |
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A Homily for Easter Sunday (from AElfric's Sermones catholicae) | |
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The Dream of the Rood | |
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On False Gods (Wulfstan's De falsis deis) | |
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The Sermon of the Wolf (Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi) | |
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The Seafarer | |
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Telling Tales | |
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Falling in Love (from Apollonius of Tyre) | |
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The Trees of the Sun and the Moon (from The Letter of Alexander) | |
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Cynewulf and Cyneheard (from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: annal for 755) | |
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The Battle of Maldon | |
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Beowulf | |
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The Tragedy of Hildeburh (Beowulf, lines 1063-1159) | |
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The Slaying of Grendel's Mother (Beowulf, lines 1492-1590) | |
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The Fight at Finnsburh | |
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Reflection and lament | |
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Truth is Trickiest (Maxims II) | |
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The Durham Proverbs | |
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Five Anglo-Saxon Riddles | |
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'Shield' | |
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'Swan' | |
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'Onion' | |
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'Bible' | |
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'Bookworm' | |
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Deor | |
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The Ruin | |
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The Wanderer | |
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Wulf and Eadwacer | |
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The Wife's Lament | |
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Manuscripts and textual emendations | |
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Reference Grammar of Old English | |
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Pronouns | |
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Nouns | |
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Adjectives | |
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The use of the cases | |
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Numerals | |
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Adverbs | |
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Verbs | |
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Useful Old English | |
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Glossary | |
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Guide to terms | |
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Index | |