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Excerpt from King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Compendious History of the World by Orosius: Containing Facsimile Specimens of the Lauderdale and Cotton Mss.; A Preface Describing These Mss., Etc.; An Introduction, on Orosius and His Work; The Anglo-Saxon Text; Notes and Various Readings; A Literal English Translation, With Notes Tm; Facsrmw of p 12, from the Lauderdale ms., faces p. 34, of English translation, and p 14 naturally follows 13. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.