Project Gutenberg 2010-11-14 Public domain in the USA. 253 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.) en English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Readers English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Grammar PE Text Browsing: Language & Communication Browsing: Literature Browsing: Teaching & Education 420476 420384 2024-09-14T11:28:49.192290 2023-09-15T06:31:01.393280 text/html text/html 478451 2010-11-14T14:41:05 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 114224 2010-11-14T14:45:17 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 191950 2024-09-14T11:29:05.753266 application/epub+zip 189175 2024-09-14T11:28:53.166295 application/epub+zip 179615 2024-09-14T11:28:50.950289 application/epub+zip 484104 2024-09-14T11:29:11.973180 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 573130 2024-09-14T11:29:03.769270 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 433954 2022-09-15T14:57:09.149007 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 279028 278930 2024-09-14T11:28:45.686368 2023-09-15T06:30:57.970241 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 272631 2010-11-14T14:38:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 94617 2010-11-14T14:38:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 278584 2010-11-14T14:38:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 95243 2010-11-14T14:38:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20500 2024-09-14T11:29:12.164181 application/rdf+xml 18965 2024-09-14T11:28:51.426300 image/jpeg 4012 2024-09-14T11:28:51.194277 image/jpeg 175877 2024-09-14T11:28:49.224336 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia