THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE WORK.

THE INTRODUCTION-An account of Orosius and his writings,

MR. HAMPSON'S ESSAY on King Alfred's Geography, p. 1–63.

THE ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATE I and II face each other, and are placed before the title.

THE FACSIMILE of page 12, from the Lauderdale MS. faces
p. 34, and page 14 naturally follows 13.

PLATE III faces page 83.

THE MAP of Europe, Asia, and Africa has its left margin pasted

on the outer margin of the right-hand cover, and unfolds to

the right, that the whole may be visible while reading the

work.

A

LITERAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION

OF

KING ALFRED'S ANGLO-SAXON VERSION

OF

THE COMPENDIOUS HISTORY OF THE WORLD

BY

OROSIUS.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

Here beginneth the book, which men call OROSIUS.

1

CHAPTER I.

How our elders divided all the globe into three parts, § 1, 5.

[The boundary of Asia, § 2, 6.-of Europe, § 3.-of Africa,

§ 4. of India and Parthia, § 7.-of Babylonia, Mesopotamia,

Palestine, Armenia, Syria, Phoenicia, etc. § 8.-of Egypt, § 9.-

of the south of Asia, § 10.

Extent of Alfred's GERMANIA, § 11.-of the East Franks, Bava-

rians, Bohemians, Frisians, Danes, Angles, Old-Saxons, etc. § 12.

The first voyage of Ohthere § 13.-Of the Biarmians § 14.-

Ohthere a rich man, § 15.-Of the country of the Northmen,

§ 16.-Of Sweden, § 17.

Ohthere's second voyage, § 18. He sails into the Baltic, § 19.

Wulfstan's voyage, § 20.-Customs of the Esthonians, con-

cerning the dead, § 21.-Horse races, § 22. Of keeping the

dead, § 23.

1 What is placed between the brackets is not in Anglo-Saxon: it is inserted to complete

the Table of Contents.