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Select translations from Old English prose

Albert S. Cook · 1908 · Scanned text · Free in the US

92,819 words · about 6 h 30 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1908, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/08003139); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Albert S. Cook
Language
English
Published
1908
Length
92,819 words · about 6 h 30 min
Sections
5 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (5)
  1. Front matter about 2 min
  2. Contents about 1 h 51 min
  3. II The Works Of King Alfred, And Matter Relating To Alfred about 2 h 38 min
  4. IV Late Anonymous Wokks about 1 h 36 min
  5. Chap. 1 about 23 min
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Front matter

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PEEFACE

The reception accorded to our Select Translations from Old English Poetry has encouraged us to believe that a companion volume from Old English prose might be welcome. While primarily intended for the student of literature, it will be found to contain' matter of scarcely less interest to the student of history, and especially of what the Germans call the history of culture.

Contents

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I, Works Mainly Historical 1

Selections from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English

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