Excerpt from The Battle of Maldon, and Other Renderings From the Anglo-Saxon: Together With Original VerseThere is no claim to special linguistic scholar ship, but such merit in this respect as the work may chance to possess, is chie¿y due to the excellent teaching of Prof. A. S. Napier, of Merton College, Oxford, whose lectures I have been privileged to attend.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.