Ælfredian

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Alfredian.

   In examining Table 11.2, the reader may have noted that the Parker is not the only Ælfredian manuscript subject to multiple personalities.

   2004, Rochelle Altman, Absent Voices: The Story of Writing Systems in the West, Oak Knoll Press, →ISBN, page 230

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   The style of these Ælfredian versions is distinguished from that of the Cædmonian school by its great simplicity of diction, and the absence of those poetical phrases which are so characteristic of the latter, […]

   1826, John Josias Conybeare, edited by William Daniel Conybeare, Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, London: […] Harding and Lepard, […], page 258

   She includes a useful table of references suggesting knowledge of classical translation theory in Ælfredian prologues and epilogues (p. 158).

   2016, Elizabeth Dearnley, Translators and Their Prologues in Medieval England, D. S. Brewer, →ISBN, page 46