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Bright's Old English grammar & reader

Third edition

second corrected printing

F.G. Casidy

Richard N. Ringler

copyright 1891, 1894, 1917, 1935, 1961, 1971 by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, inc

Library of Congress Catalog Card number: 76-179921 ISBN0_03_084713_3 printed in the united states of america 1234567890 038 0987

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Note to the second Printing

In this reprinting a substantial number of errors have been corrected and a few changes have been made in the explanatory notes to the texts. We wish to thank colleagues who took the trouble to notify us of errors or to disagree with our opinions. We hope that they will apprise us of any further errors remaining in this printing

Through inadvertance on our part, the Preface omits to mention two debts of gratitude: to our editrix Priscilla Van Haverbeke of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, without whose energetic attentions this book would be much less satisfactory; and to Lindsay Holichek, who helped us in the time-consuming task of proofreading the Glossary.

F. G. C.
R.N.R.

Madison, Wisconsin
January 1974

Abbreviations

acc. accusative A.D. Anno Domini adj(s). adjective(s). ad loc. ad locum, i.e. to the place (cited). adv. adverb; adverbial Ang. Anglian
Anm. Anmerkung, i.e. note A-SE Sir Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd ed. (Oxford 1971). ASPR The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records: a collective Edition, ed. George Philip Krapp and Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie, 6 vol. (New York 1931-53). B Dorothy Bethuru, ed., The Homilies of Wulfstan (Oxford 1975) Brit. British. BT Bosworth-Toller, i.e. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth. .., ed. and enlarged by T. Northcote Toller....(Oxford 1898)
BTS Bosworth-Toller Supplement, i.e. T. Northcote Toller, Supplement to An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth. (Oxford 1921) c circa, i.e. about, approximately Campbell A. Campbell, Old English Grammar , reprinted....from corrected sheets of the first [1959] edition (Oxford 1962). cf. confer, i.e. compare. cogn. cognate with. col. column.
comp. comparative. CVC Cleasby-Vigfusson-Craigie, i.e. An Icelandic-English Dictionary, initiated by Richard Cleasby, subsequently, revised, enlarged and completed by Gudbrand Vigfusson, M.A., 2nd ed. with a Supplement by Sir William A. Craigie....(Oxford 1957). d. died. del. delete. dat. dative. d.o. direct object.
ed. edited by. ed. cit. editione citata, i.e. in the edition cited. eds. editors EEMSF Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile. EETS Early English Text Society. e.g. exempli gratia, i.e. for example.
EGmc East Germanic. EGS English and Germanic Studies. EHD English Historical Documents, I: c540 - 1042 , ed. Dorothy Whitelock (London 1955). Ericson Eston Everett Ericson, The Use of Swa in Old English, Hesperia XII (Göttingen 1932). esp. especially. etc. et cetera.
EWS Early West Saxon. f. and [the page or line] following. Farr James Marion Farr, Intensives and Reflexives in Anglo-Saxon and Early Middle English (Baltimore 1905). fem. feminine. ff. and [the pages or lines] following. fol(s). folio(s).
gen. genitive. Ger. German. GK Grein-Köhler, i.e. C.W.M. Grein, Sprachschatz der Angelsächischen Dichter..., neu herausgegeben von J.J. Köhler (Heidelberg 1912). Gmc. Germanic. Gr. Greek. IE Indo-European.
i.e. id est, that is, to wit. Íf Íslenzk fornrit. ind. indirect indef. indefinite. indic. indicative. inf. infinitive.
inst. instrumental. IPA International Phonetic Association. JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology. K Kentish. Ker N.R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon(Oxford 1957). l. line.
Lat. Latin. lit. literally. ll. lines. LWS Late West Saxon. MÆ Medium Ævum masc. masculine.
ME Middle English MLN Modern Language Notes. MLR Modern Language Review. MnDan Modern Danish. MnE Modern English. MnGer Modern German.
MnNor Modern Norwegian. Mossé Fernand Mossé, Manuel dee l'Anglais du Moyen Âge, I (Vieil-Anglais), Paris 1950. MS Medieval Studies MS(S) manuscript(s). MW Magoun-Walker, i.e. F.P. Magoun, Jr. and J.A. Walker, An Old-English Anthology: Translations of Old-English Prose and Verse (Dubuque 1950). n. note.
neut. neuter. NGmc North Germanic. NM Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. nom. nominative. OE Old English. OF Old Frisian.
OHG Old High German. ON Old Norse. op.cit. opere citato, i.e. in the work cited. OS Old Saxon p. page. PBA Proceedings of the British Academy.
pl. plural. PL Patrologia Latina. Plumber1 Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, ed. Charles Plummer, 2 vols. (Oxford 1892-9); reprinted 1952 with additional material by Dorothy Whitelock. Plumber2 Venerabilis Baedae Opera Historica. ed. Carolus Plumer. 2 vols. (Oxford 1896). PMLA Publications of the Modern Language Association. Pope1 John Collins Pope, The Rhythm of Beowulf, revised edition (New Haven 1966).
Pope2 Seven Old English Poems, ed. John C. Pope (Indianapolis 1966). Pope3 Homilies of Ælfric: A Supplementary Collection, ed. John C. Pope, EETS, 259-60(1967-8). pp. pages. PrehOE Prehistoric OE pret. preterit. PrGmc Primitive Germanic.
pron. pronoun. PrON Primitive Old Norse. q.v. quode vide, i.e. which see. QW Quirk-Wrenn, i.e. Randolph Quirk and C.L. Wrenn, An Old English Grammar, 2nd ed. (London 1958). r recto, i.e. on the front (of an MS leaf). refl. reflexive.
rel. relative. RES Review of Engish Studies. SB Sievers-Brunner, i.e. Karl Brunner, Altenglische Grammatik nach der Angelsächsischen Grammatik von Eduard Sievers, 3rd ed. (Tübingen 1965). sc. scilicet, i.e. to wit (used before a word that is to be supplied or understood). sg. singular. Sisam Kenneth Sisam, Studies in the History of Old English Literature (Oxford 1953).
Skt Sanskrit. SN Studia Neophilologica. SP Studies in Philology. Sprockel C. Sprockel,The Language of the Parker Chronicle, I (The Hague 1965). SS. Saints. St. Saint.
subj. subjunctive. s.v. sub verbo, i.e. under the word (in question). Sweet14 Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse, 14th ed., rev. C.T. Onions (Oxford 1959). Sweet15 Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse, 15th ed., rev. Dorothy Whitelock (Oxford 1967). US Unites States. v verso, i.e. on the back (of an MS leaf).
Voges F. Voges, "Der Reflexive Dativ im Englischen," Anglia, VI (1883), 317-374. W Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, ed. Dorothy Whitelock, (London 1963). WGmc West Germanic. WS West Saxon. Wrenn C.L. Wrenn, A Study of Old English Literature(London 1967). Wülfing J. Ernst Wülfing, Die Syntax in den Werken Alfreds des Grossen, 2 vols. (Bonn 1894-1901).
ZfdA Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum.
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