sion. But the intimate relationship of the two languages will be thus more clearly perceived. The reasons for adding a terminating e when omitted before the same or another vowel, or before certain consonants, will be found in the Notes. Had such omission appeared uniformly as MSS. have handed down the text of authors, or been absolutely required by rhythm, we might merely have denoted it by some artificial distinction, as is done in many modern languages. To have noted every deviation from the text, even from forms of words in the same, as expressed in the sources from which we have drawn, would have been desirable, but was forbidden by the want of space. As in Vol. I., however, no important changes have been arbitrarily made, or without calling the student's attention to them. In the Notes appended to this volume, the references to the Grammar will be found but few, as almost all etymological forms, and syntactical peculiarities occurring in the language, had been exemplified in the first. Some of those references, we will here observe, are made to the author's revised edition of the same, now in preparation for the press, in which the syntax will appear more fully illustrated than in the work as originally issued. In conclusion, we would not forbear acknowledging our indebtedness to the labors of Thorpe, Kemble, and others, whose names stand foremost in the modern school of Anglo-Saxon literature. ANALECTA ANGLO-SAXONICA. PART III. SELECTIONS IN VERSE. I. FROM CAEDMON'S PARAPHRASE OF SACRED HISTORY. THE PRAISE OF THE DEITY. Us is riht micel Thaet we rodera Weard, Wereda Wuldor-Cyning, Wordum hérigon, He is maegna spéd, Freá aelmihtig. 10 Naes him fruma aefre Or geworden, Ne nú ende cymth Ac he bíth á ric Ofer heofen-stólas; Heágum thrymmum, Sóthfaest and swith-feórm, Swegl-bosmas heold, Thá waeron gesette 20 Wide and síde, Thurh geweald Godes, Wuldres bearnum, Gásta weardum. THE REVOLT AND CONDEMNATION OF THE ANGELS, Haefdon gleam and dreám Heora órdfruman Engla threatas, Beorhte blisse; Waes heora blaed micel; Thegnas thrymfaeste! 30 Theóden héredon; Saegdon lustum lóf Ac híe on frithe lifdon, 50 Haefdon gylp micel, Thaet hie with Drihtne Wuldor-faesten-wic, |