King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies
YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
ALBERT S. COOK, Editor
XIII
King Alfred's Old English Version
OF
St. Augustine's Soliloquies
EDITED
WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY
BY
HENRY LEE HARGROVE, Ph.D.
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1902
TO
MY WIFE
WHOSE SYMPATHY AND SACRIFICES
CONTRIBUTED TO THE JOY
OF THIS WORK.
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Introduction | XV-LVII | ||
I. | The Manuscript and Reprints | XVII | |
1. | Manuscript | XIX | |
2. | Reprints | ||
II. | Grammatical Observations | XX | |
1. | Phonology | XX | |
2. | Inflection | XXII | |
III. | Relation of Alfred to St. Augustine | XXIV | |
1. | St. Augustine | XXIV | |
2. | King Alfred | XXVIII | |
IV. | Relation of the Soliloquies to Alfred's Other Works | XXXI | |
1. | Authorship | XXXI | |
2. | Title | XXXIII | |
3. | Relation to Works Other than the Boethius | XXXIII | |
4. | Relation to the Boethius | XXXIV | |
V. | Discussion of Alfred's Version of the Soliloquies | XXXVII | |
1. | Sources | XXXVII | |
2. | General View | XXXVII | |
3. | Latin Original | XXXVIII | |
4. | Alfred's Version | XL | |
5. | Conclusion | LV | |
King Alfred's Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies | 1—70 | ||
King Alfred's Preface | 1 | ||
Book I | 3 | ||
Book II | 55 | ||
Book III | 65 | ||
Notes | 71—74 | ||
Glossary | 75—120 | ||
Yale Studies in English (not in original TOC) |
Đē is creft ealra crefta, þæt is, þæt man spurige æfter Gode and hys hāwie and hine gesēo.—30. 23.
ALFRED THE GREAT, THE WEST SAXON KING, BORN AT WANTAGE, A. D. 849. ALFRED FOUND LEARNING DEAD, AND HE RESTORED IT; EDUCATION NEGLECTED, AND HE REVIVED IT; THE LAWS POWERLESS, AND HE GAVE THEM FORCE; THE CHURCH DEBASED, AND HE RAISED IT; THE LAND RAVAGED BY A FEARFUL ENEMY, FROM WHICH HE DELIVERED IT. ALFRED'S NAME SHALL LIVE AS LONG AS MANKIND SHALL RESPECT THE PAST.
Inscription on statue at Wantage.
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