"This unique textbook teaches the Old English language, pairing grammatical instruction with historical and literary documents in chronological order and providing lexical, historical, literary, and cultural information relevant to translation passages. Brief exercises and advanced translation sentences reinforce the lessons. A section of advanced readings is followed by a grammatical appendix and glossaries"--

Jonathan Evans is professor in the English Department, professor and graduate coordinator in the Department of Linguistics, and director of the medieval studies certificate program at the University of Georgia.