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100 1 _aSweet, Henry,
_d1845-1912
245 1 0 _aAnglo-Saxon Primer, With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary :
_bEighth Edition Revised
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2010
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2010-11-14
508 _aE-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, David Clarke, Keith Edkins, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aEnglish language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Readers
653 _aEnglish language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Grammar
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34316
999 _c75162
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