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An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary is a dictionary of Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon). Four editions of the dictionary were published. Four editions of the dictionary were published. It has often (especially in earlier times) been considered the definitive lexicon for Old English.
The Society emblem is a representation of the enamel plaque of the Anglo-Saxon Alfred Jewel, omitting its gold frame, but with an added scroll bearing the Society's name. Cultural references [ edit ]
In 1878 Skeat was elected the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge. He completed Mitchell Kemble's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Gospels, and did work both in Old English and the Gothic language. Skeat is best known for his work in Middle English, and for his standard editions of Chaucer and William Langland's Piers Plowman ...
Bosworth was succeeded by John Earle (1824–1903) and Arthur Sampson Napier (1853–1916). In 1916, the chair was renamed to Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in honour of Bosworth and his endowment, the first "Rawlinson and Bosworth" professor being Sir William Alexander Craigie (1867–1957), who in 1925 moved to a post at the University of Chicago (in order to work on his ...
Archived files of research materials from the creation of the Dictionary of Old English.. The dictionary was conceived in 1968 as a replacement for the Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, which had been compiled at a time when both the study of the Old English language and lexicographical techniques were less advanced. [3]
Initial with Elizabeth Elstob's portrait from her English-Saxon homily on the birth-day of St. Gregory (1709) Elizabeth Elstob (29 September 1683 – 3 June 1756), [1] the "Saxon Nymph", was a pioneering scholar of Anglo-Saxon. She was the first person to publish a grammar of Old English written in modern English. [2]
In 1855 appeared Thorpe's Anglo-Saxon Poems of Beowulf, with parallel prose translation, notes, glossary, and indexes. He had planned this work as early as 1830, and his text was collated with the Cottonian MS before John Mitchell Kemble 's; the scorched edges of the manuscript suffered further shortly afterwards.
The Celt, the Roman and the Saxon (1852; 4th ed., 1885) Wanderings of an Antiquary; Chiefly upon the Traces of the Romans in Britain (1854) History of Fulke Fitz Warine (1855); de Garlandia, De triumphis ecclesiae (1856, 4to, Roxburghe Club) Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English (1857)