Old English Poems

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Anonymous. Old English Poems

Old English Poems

Table of Contents

PREFACE

I. PAGAN POETRY

1. EPIC OR HEROIC GROUP

WIDSITH

DEOR’S LAMENT

WALDHERE

A

B

THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG

2. GNOMIC GROUP

CHARMS

I. For Bewitched Land

II. Against a Sudden Stitch

RIDDLES

I. A Storm

II. A Storm

III. A Storm

V. A Shield

VII. A Swan

VIII. A Nightingale

XIV. A Horn

XV. A Badger

XXIII. A Bow

XXVI. A Bible

XLV. Dough

XLVII. A Bookworm

LX. A Reed

EXETER GNOMES

Group II

THE FATES OF MEN

3. ELEGIAC GROUP

THE WANDERER

THE SEAFARER

THE WIFE’S LAMENT

THE HUSBAND’S MESSAGE

THE RUIN

II. CHRISTIAN POETRY

1. CÆDMONIAN SCHOOL

CÆDMON’S HYMN

BEDE’S DEATH SONG

SELECTIONS FROM GENESIS

GENESIS A

The Offering of Isaac

SELECTIONS FROM EXODUS

The Crossing of the Red Sea

2. CYNEWULF AND HIS SCHOOL

a. CYNEWULF

SELECTIONS FROM THE CHRIST

1. Hymn to Christ

2. Hymn to Jerusalem

3. Joseph and Mary

4. Rune Passage

SELECTIONS FROM THE ELENE

1. The Vision of the Cross

2. The Discovery of the Cross

b. ANONYMOUS POEMS OF THE CYNEWULFIAN SCHOOL

THE DREAM OF THE ROOD

JUDITH

1. The Feast

2. The Slaying of Holofernes

3. The Return to Bethulia

4. The Battle

5. The Pursuit

6. The Spoil

7. The Praise

THE PHŒNIX

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

THE GRAVE

III. POEMS FROM THE CHRONICLE

THE BATTLE OF BRUNNANBURG

THE BATTLE OF MALDON

APPENDIX—SELECTIONS FROM OLD ENGLISH PROSE

ACCOUNT OF THE POET CÆDMON

ALFRED’S PREFACE TO HIS TRANSLATION OF GREGORY’S “PASTORAL CARE”

THE CONVERSION OF EDWIN

THE VOYAGES OF OHTHERE AND WULFSTAN

Ohthere’s Voyages

Wulfstan’s Voyage

INDEX TO TITLES

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Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose

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Of shining metal in shillings counted;

I gave over this armlet to Eadgils then,

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