This popular reader—a standard since its first edition in 1876—helps students acquire a sound elementary knowledge Old English by studying of a rich variety of poetry and prose. Selections cover a wide range of dialects and genres, from an early Northumbrian form of
Caedmon's Hymn
and ninth-century Kentish charters to the complete texts of
The Dream of the Rood
and Wulfstan's
Address to the English
, with ample literary and historical notes.