Description: "This unique textbook teaches the Old English language, pairing grammatical instruction with historical and literary documents in chronological order and providing lexical, historical, literary, and cultural information relevant to translation passages. Brief exercises and advanced translation sentences reinforce the lessons. A section of advanced readings is followed by a grammatical appendix and glossaries"--
Review Quotes:
"This is a superb, innovative textbook that lays claim to an original approach and pedagogy as well as a comprehensiveness that other introductory readers and textbooks for Old English lack. Its coverage of the language for students of all levels is impressive." --Andrew Scheil, University of Minnesota