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Provides extensive annotation for each text, with glossing of words and phrases, and same-page modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem.Includes fifty-seven texts, including a wide range of prose and verse passages.This second edition is an accessible and scholarly introduction to Old English. Headnotes to each of the six text sections, and to every individual text, establish their literary and historical contexts, and illustrate the rich cultural variety of Anglo-Saxon England. A comprehensive glossary lists and analyses all the Old English words that occur in the book. A succinct reference grammar is appended, along with guides to pronunciation and to grammatical terminology. Modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem are provided on the same page as the text, along with extensive notes. The fifty-seven individual texts include established favourites such as The Battle of Maldon and Wulfstan's Sermon of the Wolf, as well as others not otherwise readily available, such as an extract from Apollonius of Tyre. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old English' section for newcomers to the Old English language, along with a new extract from Beowulf. This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. Description Product filter button Description