King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies

by Alfred the Great

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.

 (not listed in original)

• Preface

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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			page
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)

 

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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.