Letter to Sigeweard
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The Letter to Sigeweard, also known as Libellus de Veteri Testamento et Novo ('A short book on the Old and New Testament') (written c. 1005–6),[1] by Ælfric of Eynsham (d. c. 1010), is, in the words of Hugh Magennis, 'the earliest extended discussion of the Bible, considered as a whole, in a western vernacular language and is one of the major discussions of the Bible in medieval English'.[2]
Editions and translations
[edit]- Marsden, Richard (ed.). The Old English Heptateuch and Ælfric's "Libellus de veteri testamento et novo". Early English Text Society; 330. Oxford: Oxford U. P., 2008.
- Brandon W. Hawk (trans.), 'Ælfric’s Libellus de Veteri Testamento et Novi: A Translation' (29 May 2015).
- Ælfric of Eynsham's Letter to Sigeweard: An Edition, Commentary, and Translation, ed. and trans. by Larry Swain (Witan Publishing, 2017), ISBN 9781386074472.
References
[edit]- ↑ Hawk, Brandon W. (29 May 2015). "Ælfric's Libellus de Veteri Testamento et Novi: A Translation". Brandon W. Hawk. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
- ↑ Hugh Magennis, 'Aelfric: Letter to Sigeweard', in The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.01: English Writing and Culture: Anglo-Saxon England, 500-1066, ed. by Richard William Dance and Hugh Magennis (Queen's University Belfast).
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