# King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care

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- Authors: [Henry Sweet](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-sweet)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2023-08-10
- Genres: Literature: history and criticism

## Description

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.

## Editions

### King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care

- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN: 978-10-3254-480-9
- Pages: 370
- Published: 2023-08-10
- Language: en_US