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2010-11-14
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Sweet, Henry
1845
1912
Anglo-Saxon Primer, With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary
Eighth Edition Revised
E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, David Clarke, Keith Edkins, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
"Anglo-Saxon Primer, With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary" by Henry Sweet is an educational text on Old English written in the late 19th century. This work aims to provide a straightforward introduction to the study of Old English grammar and translation, focusing on the West-Saxon dialect. It is likely that the primer serves both as a fundamental resource for beginners and as a teaching tool for more advanced scholars, ensuring an accessible yet comprehensive understanding of the language. The opening of the primer features a preface that outlines the author's motivations for creating the text, highlighting a historical need for an effective introduction to Old English literature. Sweet discusses the limitations of previous resources and establishes the goal of this primer: to simplify the complexities of Old English and to omit poetry in favor of clear prose selections. He explains that the book is structured to provide grammatical principles along with examples grouped according to the forms they illustrate, ensuring that novices can learn effectively while gaining insights into the language's intricacies. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading ease score: 78.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
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English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Readers
English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Grammar
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