Preface to Edition of 1900
I have added to this reprint of my “Elene and other Anglo Saxon Poems” a translation of the Dream of the Rood, which has been on hand for several years awaiting a suitable time to see the light. A brief Introduction to the poem has been prefixed, which, doubtless, leaves much to be desired, but it is all that the translator now has time for, and I must refer to the works mentioned for fuller information and discussion. With thanks for past consideration, and the hope that this addition has made the book more acceptable, I entrust it again to indulgent readers.
JAMES M. GARNETT.
Baltimore, Maryland,
October, 1900.