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Excerpt from The Oldest English Texts: Edited With Introductions and a Glossary
This collection is intended to include all the extant old-english texts up to about 900 that are preserved in contemporary mss., with the exception of the Chronicle and the works of Alfred. Most of the texts have been published before, but many of them, especially the glossaries, in a very inaccurate and defective form. All the texts here given have been corrected by the originals, except the runic ones.
I formed the plan of this undertaking many years ago, but it was not till 1878 that I was able to begin working at it continuously, for it was not till then that I had acquired palaeographical knowledge enough to deal satisfactorily with the older texts, especially the charters. The printing of the texts lasted from May 1879 to January 1881. The labour of preparing the glossary, which would have been very severe in any case, was much increased by the time-wasting way in which, from a variety of unfortunate circumstances, I was obliged to carry it out. It was not till the beginning of 1884 that I was able to send it to press, and the printing took more than a year. So I was not able to begin working at the grammatical introduction till last spring.
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