“Nobilis et strenua, iuxtaque dotem naturae sagacissima gens Saxonum, ab antiquis etiam scriptoribus memorata.”


A NEW EDITION, REVISED BY

WALTER DE GRAY BIRCH, F.R.S.L.,

Senior Assistant of the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, Honorary Librarian of the Royal Society of Literature, Honorary Secretary of the British Archæological Association, etc.

VOLUME I.

LONDON:

BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY.

1876.