Project Gutenberg 2010-11-14 Public domain in the USA. 793 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. en English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Readers English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Grammar PE Text Category: Language & Communication Category: Teaching & Education 420639 2025-10-14T06:00:33.787559 text/html 478451 2010-11-14T14:41:05 text/html 220560 2025-10-14T06:00:51.013386 application/epub+zip 217569 2025-10-14T06:00:39.339449 application/epub+zip 172157 2025-10-14T06:00:37.051501 application/epub+zip 519890 2025-10-14T06:00:56.708412 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 609012 2025-10-14T06:00:48.780466 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 433954 2022-09-15T14:57:09.149007 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278875 2025-10-14T06:00:30.999479 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 272631 2010-11-14T14:38:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 278584 2010-11-14T14:38:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20278 2025-10-14T06:00:56.874356 application/rdf+xml 18863 2025-10-14T06:00:37.644484 image/jpeg 3988 2025-10-14T06:00:37.351462 image/jpeg 94617 2010-11-14T14:38:26 application/octet-stream application/zip 114224 2010-11-14T14:45:17 application/octet-stream application/zip 95243 2010-11-14T14:38:26 application/octet-stream application/zip 201000 2025-10-14T06:00:33.817468 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia