Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions, symbols and abbreviations
- Introduction and caveats: the notion ‘Old English’
- Part I Historical prelude
- Part II Old English Phonology
- Part III Morphophonemic intermezzo
- Part IV Morphology, lexis and syntax
- Part V Historical postlude
- Glossary
- References
- Index of names
- Subject index
- Index of Old English words and affixes
Part V - Historical postlude
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions, symbols and abbreviations
- Introduction and caveats: the notion ‘Old English’
- Part I Historical prelude
- Part II Old English Phonology
- Part III Morphophonemic intermezzo
- Part IV Morphology, lexis and syntax
- Part V Historical postlude
- Glossary
- References
- Index of names
- Subject index
- Index of Old English words and affixes
Summary
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the strong, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Old EnglishA Historical Linguistic Companion, pp. 241 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994