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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.
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 ...
There are several derivative versions of this dictionary on the Internet, in some cases reformatted or provided with an interface: Project Gutenberg, in the etext96 directory; The DICT development group; The GNU project's GCIDE
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]
The order of words in Anglo-Saxon prose (1893) Repetition and parallelism in English verse; a study in the technique of poetry (1894) Anglo-Saxon grammar and exercise book, with inflections, syntax, selections for reading, and glossary (c1896) An Old English grammar and exercise book with inflections, syntax, selections for reading, and ...
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]
Subsequent works on Old English included An Anglo-Saxon Reader (1876), [5] The Oldest English Texts (1885) and A Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon (1896). [ 1 ] Sweet, like his contemporary Walter Skeat , felt under particular pressure from German scholars in English studies who, often state-employed, tenured, and accompanied by their ...
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)