King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care

2023/08/10 by Henry Sweet · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Medieval Literature and History

paper · pdf · doi:10.4324/9781003425137

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Abstract

King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text. Preserved in two manuscripts written during Alfred’s lifetime, it affords data of the highest value for fixing the grammatical peculiarities of the West-Saxon dialect of the ninth century.

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