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Complete Old English : (Book and audio support)

Complete Old English : (Book and audio support)

Author: Mark Atherton
Publisher: John Murray Press
Publication Date: 27 Dec 2013
ISBN-13: 9781444104196
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Description


Learn Old English (Anglo-Saxon) with this best-selling course from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Equally suited to general reader, historian and student of literature, this new edition teaches vocabulary and grammar through original texts, with audio support, traces the roots of modern English words, and explores the Anglo-Saxon cultural context through poems, prose and historical documents.
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Table of Contents


: Contents
: Part I - Foundation
: 1 A king must rule a country
: 2 Say what I am called
: 3 I promise three things
: 4 The four season
: 5 A certain stone
: 6 Signs in the monastery
: 7 King Cnut's proclamation
: 8 Charters and writs
: 9 Dedication of a church
: 10 The translation of St Alphege
: 11 The family dispute in Herefordshire
: 12 Love and marriage
: 13 The king's duties
: 14 The first English fiction
: Part II - History
: 15 The Alfred jewel
: 16 Alfred and Guthrum
: 17 The Fonthill cattle raid
: 18 The legend of the Anchorite
: 19 Three charters from the reign of Edgar
: 20 Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester
: 21 Abbot Ælfric
: 22 Byrhtferth and Wulfstan
: Part III - Poetry
: 23 Runes
: 24 The Wanderer
: 25 The Seafarer
: 26 The Beowulf manuscript
: 27 Beowulf
: 28 Beowulf and archaeology


Author Description


Dr Mark Atherton is Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Regent's Park College, Oxford University. A trained teacher, he has taught in Germany and Austria and has published widely in medieval studies and linguistics.






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