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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

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