Excerpt from Biographia Britannica Literaria, or Biography of Literary Characters of Great Britain and Ireland, Arranged in Chronological Order: Anglo-Saxon Period Numerous manuscripts which the hand of time has spared to us, the lighter literature of our Saxon forefathers pre sents itself continually under many varying forms. 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.