Download or read book King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care written by Dr. Henry Sweet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text. Preserved in two manuscripts written during Alfred’s lifetime, it affords data of the highest value for fixing the grammatical peculiarities of the West-Saxon dialect of the ninth century.