Excerpt from An Elementary Old English Reader (Early West Saxon)Both for the sake of the beginner and with a View to furnishing the best practice in 'unseens, ' I have as far as possible graded the difficulty of the extracts, partly by decreasing the amount Of help given in the Notes. The only difficulty of the earliest annals from the Chronicle is their disconnectedness, they probably form the easiest practice obtainable in Old English.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.