Excerpt from The Language and Dialect of the Later Old English PoetryOnly in the case of the certain works of Cynewulf, I have tried by comparing the results yielded by each poem, and by considering the rhymes of which he made occasional use, to find some hypothesis which will account for the somewhat con¿icting evidence concerning his native dialect.The following is a list of the poems I have investigated, followed in each case by the abbreviation which I have used.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.