1st Edition

King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care With an English Translation, the Latin Text, Notes, and an Introduction

Edited By Dr. Henry Sweet Copyright 1871
    374 Pages
    by Routledge

    374 Pages
    by Routledge

    King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text. Preserved in two manuscripts written during Alfred’s lifetime, it affords data of the highest value for fixing the grammatical peculiarities of the West-Saxon dialect of the ninth century.

    1. Cotton MSS  2. English Translation  3. Hatton MS  4. Notes

    Biography

    Dr. Henry Sweet