Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader

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Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader by James W. Bright

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An Anglo-Saxon Reader, Edited, With Notes, A Complete Glossary, A Chapter on Versification and An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar

by James W. Bright, Ph.D., Professor of English Philology at the Johns Hopkins University. 3rd edition, Revised and Augmented, Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1912.

The copyright on Bright's Reader has expired; it is now in the public domain.

[edit] Contents

• Preface
• Note to the Third Edition

• An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar (ix-lxxix)

• Part I
  • From the Gospels: St. Mark, Chap. IV (1-4)
  • Orpheus and Eurydice (5-7)
  • Account of the Poet Cædmon (8-13)

• Part II
  • Cynewulf and Cyneheard (14-15)
  • Wars of Alfred the Great (16-25)
  • Alfred's Preface to the Pastoral Care (26-29)
  • From the Pastoral Care (30-37)
  • The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan (38-44)
  • It is better to suffer an Injury than to inflict one (45-47)
  • Providence and Fate (48-58)
  • The Nature of God (59-61)
  • The Conversion of Edwin (62-66)

• Part III
  • A Blickling Homily (67-73)
  • Ælfric's Homily on the Assumption of St. John the Apostle (74-85)
  • Ælfric's Homily on St. Gregory the Great (86-97)
  • Ælfric's Life of King Oswald (98-106)
  • Ælfric's Preface to Genesis (107-112)
  • The Legend of St. Andrew (113-128)
  • The Harrowing of Hell (129-141)

• Part IV
  • Cædmon's Genesis: The Offering of Issac (142-145)
  • The Battle of Brunanburh (146-148)
  • The Battle of Maldon (149-159)
  • The Wanderer (160-164)
  • The Phœnix (165-188)

• Appendix I: Lactantius De Ave Phoenice (189-193)
• Notes (195-228)
• Appendix II: Anglo-Saxon Versification (229-240)
• Glossary (241-385)

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