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with war and with wisdom and also the sacred orders, how zealous they
were both in teaching and learning, and in all the services they owed to
God". [4]
By the way, the name "Alfred's scholars" was given to the group of
learned men which Alfred the Great gathered around him in his "devoted
efforts to revive learning in Essex". Chief among them were the Mercian
clerics Plegmund, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, Werferð, Bishop
of Worchester, Werwulð and Athelstan; Grimbald of t. Omer, John, a
continental Saxon; and Asser, priest of St. David's. These names are
mentioned in the text "Cura Pastoralis", a striking document on the cultural
history of England.
Beowulf is the oldest extant epic poem in any Germanic language.
Its author is unknown. The subject of the poem has nothing to do with
England, the scene is laid in various parts of Scandinavia. In the first part
(we are going to translate) Beowulf, a nephew to Higelac, king of the
Geates, comes to the court of Hrothgar, king of the Danes: (1386)
"Beowulf, the king of Ecgtheow: "Don't sorrow, wise man. It is better one
should avenge his friend than mourn for him long. Each of us must abide
life's end in this world. Let him that may win fame ere death that shall be
best there after for a warrior, when life is no more" [12].
It has been no part of our aim to make a survey of OE dialects as
they have been undertaken by hands more competent than ours.
The study of the dialects, spoken in England during the OE period,
i.e before the end of the 11th c., is rendered difficult by the scarcity of
surviving texts. Four main OE dialects can be distinguished:
Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon and Kentish. Very approximately
we may say that Northumbrian included the dialects, spoken North of the
river Humber; Mercian was spoken in the Midlands between the Humber
and the Tames; West Saxon was spoken South of the Tames in the ancient
kingdom of Wessex; and Kentish was spoken in the South-East over an
area, rather larger than covered by the modern county of Kent.
Since most of the OE manuscripts are written in the West Saxon
dialect, West Saxon forms are those with which students of OE are more
familiar. It is, however, important to remember that the Standard English
of today is derived not from the variety of the of Mercian, although a
few isolated words have been borrowed from other dialects.

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