THE ANGLO SAXON

 COLLECTION

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A truly wonderful collection of 130 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time on one unique USB flash drive covering all aspects of ANGLO SAXON HISTORY, LIFE & LANGUAGE.

 

Discover the history of the British Isles during the Anglo-Saxon period – from the Romans to the Norman conquest. Learn about the Saxon kingdoms of Britain, the people and their way of life. Included in this fascinating collection are books, poetry and other works revealing the ancient Anglo-Saxon language of ‘Old England’ helping students translate the poems, myths and legends from that period. Read about the origins of the English nation, the Anglo-Saxon roots of the English language, and the archaeological discoveries that have helped to reveal the secrets of the past. Overall, a simply stunning collection of books covering all things to do with Anglo-Saxon history, beliefs and language….

 

Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely rare and will provide a valuable library of reference material for anyone with an interest in Anglo-Saxon history and the origins of the English language. The full list of titles speaks for itself!

 

This wonderful collection of 130 vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

 


The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

 

A catalogue of English coins in the British museum. Anglo-Saxon series Vols. 1 & 2 by H. A Grueber (1887)

A compendious Anglo-Saxon and English dictionary by J. Bosworth (1848)

A guide to the Anglo-Saxon tongue by E. J. Vernon (1861)

A hand-book to the land-charters, and other Saxonic documents by J. Earle (1888)

A handy Anglo-Saxon dictionary by C. Grein (1885)

A history of England and Wales from the Roman to the Norman conquest by T. M. Owen (1882)

A history of England under the Anglo-Saxon kings Vols. 1 & 2 by J. M. Lappenberg (1845)

A second Anglo-Saxon reader; archaic and dialectal by H. Sweet (1887)

A short history of the Anglo-Saxon freedom by J. K. Hosmer (1890)

Alfred the Great by T. Hughes (1869)

An Anglo-Saxon abbot, Ælfric of Eynsham by S. H. Gem (1912)

An Anglo-Saxon dictionary by T. N. Toller (1921)

An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives by W. Hunter (1832)

An Anglo-Saxon reader by A. J. Wyatt (1919)

An Anglo-Saxon reader by J. W. Bright (1908)

An Anglo-Saxon verse-book by W. J. Sedgfield (1922)

An archaeological index to remains of antiquity of the Celtic. Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon periods by J. Y. Akerman (1847)

An English-Anglo-Saxon vocabulary by W. W. Skeat (1879)

An historical dissertation concerning the antiquity of the English consitution by G. Stuart (1770)

An interesting narrative of the conquest of the Romans & Britons by the Saxons - an account of the Heptarchy of seven Saxon kingdoms in England by J. Corner (1850)

An introduction to the study of the Anglo-Saxon language, comprising an elementary grammar, selections for reading, with explanatory notes and a vocabulary by S. H. Carpenter (1889)

An outline of Anglo-Saxon grammar by J. W. Bright (1921)

Analecta Anglo-Saxonica - a selection in prose and verse, from Anglo-Saxon authors of various ages; with a glossary by B. Thorpe (1834)

Anderida; or, the Briton and the Saxon, A.D. CCCCXLI Vols. 1 - 3 (1875)

Anglo-Saxon and Norse poems by N. Kershaw (1922)

Anglo-Saxon and Old English vocabularies Vols. 1 & 2 by T. Wright (1884)

Anglo-Saxon bishops, kings and nobles - the succession of the bishops and the pedigrees of the kings and nobles by W. G. Searle (1899)

Anglo-Saxon Britain by G. Allen (1891)

Anglo-Saxon leechcraft - an historical sketch of early English medicine (1912)

Anglo-Saxon prose reader, for beginners, in oldest English by W. M. Baskerville (1898)

Bede's Ecclesiastical history of England. Also the Anglo-Saxon chronicle by Saint Bede the Venerable (1903)

Beowulf an Anglo-Saxon poem, and The fight at Finnsburg by J. M. Garnett (1882)

Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon epic poem by J. L. Hall (1892)

Britannia saxonica. A map of Britain during the Saxon octarchy, and the mutations in the Saxon kingdoms the genelogies of the Anglo-Saxon kings, etc. by G. W. Collen (1833)

Cartularium Saxonicum - a collection of charters relating to Anglo-Saxon history by W. Birch (1885)

Diplomatarium anglicum aevi saxonici - a collection of English charters, from the reign of King Aethelberht of Kent to that of William the Conqueror with a translation of the Anglo-Saxon by B. Thorpe (1865)

Domesday book and beyond - three essays in the early history of England by F. W. Maitland (1907)

Early wars of Wessex; being studies from England's school of arms in the West by A. F. Major (1913)

Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or, The fight at Brunanburh; and Byrhtnoth, or The fight at Maldon Anglo-Saxon poems by J. M. Garnett (1911)

England before the Norman Conquest, being a history of the Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods down to the year A.D. 1066 by C. Oman (1913)

English medicine in the Anglo-Saxon times by J. F. Payne (1904)

English roots and the derivation of words from the ancient Anglo-Saxon two lectures by E. Hoare (1856)

Essays in Anglo-Saxon law by H. Adams (1905)

Fairford graves by W. M Wylie (1852)

Gnomic poetry in Anglo-Saxon by B. C. Williams (1914)

Grave-mounds and their contents - a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods by L. Jewitt (1870)

Hand-book of Anglo-Saxon and early English by H. Corson (1871)

Hereward, the Saxon patriot - a history of his life and character, with a record of his ancestors and descendants, A.D. 445 to A.D. 1896 by T. N. Harward (1896)

History of the Anglo-Saxons by F. Palgrave (1850)

Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon poetry by J. J. Conybeare (1826)

Indirect discourse in Anglo-Saxon by J. H. Gorrell (1895)

Introduction to Anglo-Saxon. An Anglo-Saxon reader, with philological notes, a brief grammar, and a vocabulary by F. A. March (1870)

Judith, Phœnix, and other Anglo-Saxon poems by J. L. Hall (1902)

King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius De consolatione philosophiae with a literal English translation, notes, and glossary (1864)

Le poème anglo-saxon de Beowulf par H. Pierquin (1912)

Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England Vols. 1 -3 by T. A. Cockayne (1864)

Legends of the Saxon saints by A. Devere (1879)

Lives of eminent Anglo-Saxons; illustrating the dawn of Christianity and civilization in Great Britain Vol. 2 by Unknown author (1887)

Old English idyls by J. L. Hall (1899)

Older England, illustrated by the Anglo-Saxon antiquities in the British museum by J. F. Hodgetts (1884)

On some ancient battle-fields in Lancashire and their historical, legendary, and aesthetic associations by C. Hardwick (1882)

Onomasticon anglo-saxonicum - a list of Anglo-Saxon proper names from the time of Beda to that of King John by W. G. Searle (1897)

Origin of the Anglo-Saxon race; a study of the settlement of England and the tribal origin of the Old English people by T. W. Shore (1906)

Our British ancestors - who and what were they by S. Lysons (1865)

Scandinavian Britain by W. G. Collingwood (1908)

Select English historical documents of the ninth and tenth centuries by F. E. Harmer (1914)

Sermones catholici, or, Homilies of Aelfric  in original Anglo-Saxon, with an English version Vol. 2 by B. Thorpe (1844)

Specimens of Anglo-Saxon poetry Vols. 1 & 2 by W. A. Craigey (1922)

Symeonis Dunelmensis Opera et collectanea by Simeon of Durham (1868)

The Anglo-Saxon charms by F. Grendon (1909)

The Anglo-Saxon chronicle by J. A. Giles (1914)

The Anglo-Saxon church - its history, revenues and general character by H. Soames (1856)

The Anglo-Saxon house - its construction, decoration and furniture together with an introduction on English miniture drawing of the 10th and 11th centuries by G. T. Files (1893)

The Anglo-Saxon poems of Beowulf, The scôp or gleeman's tale, and The fight at Finnesburg by B. Thorpe (1875)

The Anglo-Saxon runic casket (The Franks Casket) five photographed plates with explanatory text by W. Vietor (1901)

The Anglo-Saxon sagas; an examination of their value as aids to history; a sequel to the History of the conquest of Britain by the Saxons by D. H. Haigh (1861)

The Anglo-Saxon version of the story of Apollonius of Tyre by B. Thorpe (1834)

The Anglo-Saxon weapon names treated archæologically and etymologically by M. L. Keller (1906)

The Anglo-Saxon, a study in evolution by G. E. Boxall (1906)

The antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church by J. Lingard (1854)

The archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon settlements by E. T. Leeds (1913)

The battle of Maldon, and other renderings from the Anglo-Saxon; together with original verse by F. Butterfield (1900)

The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon people by W. Canton (1914)

The British, Roman, and Saxon antiquities and folklore of Worcestershire by J. Allies (1856)

The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon by T. Wright (1852)

The conquest of Britain by the Saxons - a harmony of the Historia Britonum, the writings of Gildas, the Brut, and the Saxon chronicle by D. H. Haigh (1861)

The conquest of England by J. R. Green (1884)

The Englishman and the Scandinavian; or, A comparison of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse literature by F. Metcalfe (1880)

The gospels of the fower Euangelistes - translated in the olde Saxons tyme out of Latin in the vulgare toung of the Saxons by J. Foxe (1571)

The great days of Northumbria by J. T. Mills (1911)

The history of Britain, that part especially now called England by J. Milton (1818)

The history of England from the earliest time to the Norman conquest by T. Hodgkin (1906)

The history of the Anglo-Saxons - from the earliest period to the Norman conquest Vols. 1 - 3 by S. Turner (1836)

The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results Vols. 1 - 6 by E. A. Freeman (1867)

The importance of women in Anglo-Saxon times by G. F. Browne (1919)

The industrial arts of the Anglo-Saxons by J. Baron de Baye (1893)

The Legend of St. Juliana, translated from the Latin of the Acta sanctorum and the Anglo-Saxon of Cynewulf by C. W. Kennedy (1906)

The life of Alfred the Great - to which is appended Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Orosius with a literal English translation, and an Anglo-Saxon alphabet and glossary by R. Pauli (1902)

The making of England Vols. 1 & 2 by J. R. Green (1904)

The national assembly in the Anglo-Saxon period by F. Liebermann (1913)

The origin of the English nation by H. M. Chadwick (1907)

 The paladins of Edwin the Great by C. R. Markham (1908)

The saints and missionaries of the Anglo-Saxon era by D. C. Adams (1897)

The Saxons in England. A history of the English commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest Vols. 1 & 2 by J. M. Kemble (1849)

The storming of London and the Thames Valley campaign - a military study of the conquest of Britain by the Angles by P. T. Godsall (1908)

The story of Beowulf - translated from Anglo-Saxon into modern English prose by E. Kirtlan (1914)

The student's dictionary of Anglo-Saxon by H. Sweet (1896)

Tribal custom in Anglo-Saxon law by F. Seebohm (1902)

Two of the Saxon chronicles parallel, with supplementary extracts from the others; a revised text edited with introd. notes, appendices, and glossary Vols. 1 & 2 by J. Earle (1892)

Wager of battle; A tale of Saxon slavery in Sherwood Forest by H. W. Herbert (1855)

Wanderings in Anglo-Saxon Britain by A. Weigall (1921)

Whole works of King Alfred the Great - With preliminary essays illustrative of the history, arts, and manners, of the ninth century Vol. 2 (1852)

 

 

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in English history, the Anglo-Saxons and the origins of the English language – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

 

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