Overview
This edition presents several Old English texts from an Oxford manuscript. Unique to the manuscript, the works have not been edited since 1909 (when only a text and translation were supplied). Four of the texts are by the important late tenth-century writer AElfric, the other three are anonymous. The edition offers detailed information about the manuscript, its language, and the background, sources, and analogues of the individual works.
Synopsis
This edition presents several Old English texts from an Oxford manuscript. Unique to the manuscript, the works have not been edited since 1909 (when only a text and translation were supplied). Four of the texts are by the important late tenth-century writer AElfric, the other three are anonymous. The edition offers detailed information about the manuscript, its language, and the background, sources, and analogues of the individual works.