Excerpt from Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis: Nunc Primum Typis Mandatum This work, from the institution of the Society through whose instrumentality it is now printed, was naturally regarded by its members as having many claims upon their peculiar attention. The religious services of the ancient kingdom of Northumbria, the most cultivat ed, because the most learned of the states into which Saxon England was divided, are to be understood from it alone; the philologist is, assisted in his investigation into the nature of the language spoken by the natives of that district by examining its interlinear gloss; and through it some insight may be gained respecting superstitions which lingered, when it was written, amongst a people as yet scarcely converted from the adoration of Thor and of Woden. 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.