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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 ...
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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 ...
Campbell, Alistair (1972), Enlarged Addenda and Corrigenda to the Supplement of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Based on the Manuscript Collections of Joseph Bosworth, Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-863110-1. Cameron, Angus (1982), "Anglo-Saxon Literature", Dictionary of the Middle Ages, pp. 274– 288, ISBN 978-0-684-16760-2.
This electronic dictionary is also made available as a potential starting point for development of a modern comprehensive encyclopedic dictionary, to be accessible freely on the Internet, and developed by the efforts of all individuals willing to help build a large and freely available knowledge base. [1]
The novel focuses on a lost Viking child, Torolv, who is adopted by the Anglo-Saxon court, and eventually witnesses the Battle of Maldon, in which the child's father may be one of the attacking Vikings. Clarke ends the novel with her own Modern English translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem The Battle of Maldon. In the early 1940s, Clarke had been ...
The Dictionary of Old English main workroom, 2011. The dictionary is available in 3 formats: [7] Dictionary of Old English: A to I online This site offers a limited number of free searches per year, then charges apply. Registration is required. Dictionary of Old English: A to H on CD-ROM; Dictionary of Old English: A to G on microfiche