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CONTENTS.


PAGE
An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar
ix

PART I.

I.
From the Gospels: St. Mark, Chap. IV
1
II.
Orpheus and Eurydice
5
III.
Account of the Poet Cædmon
8

PART II.

IV.
Cynewulf and Cyneheard
14
V.
Wars of Alfred the Great
16
VI.
Alfred's Preface to the Pastoral Care
26
VII.
From the Pastoral Care
30
VIII.
The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan
38
IX.
It is better to suffer an Injury than to inflict one
45
X.
Providence and Fate
48
XI.
The Nature of God
59
XII.
The Conversion of Edwin
62

PART III.

XIII.
A Blickling Homily
67
XIV.
Ælfric's Homily on the Assumption of St. John the Apostle
74
XV.
Ælfric's Homily on St. Gregory the Great
86
XVI.
Ælfric's Life of King Oswald
98
vii