Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarerare among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all superb poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these islands as pagans and yet within two hundred years had become Christians, to such effect that England was the centre of missionary endeavour and, for a time, the heart of European civilization.
Kevin Crossley-Holland places poems and prose in context with his skilful interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon world; his translations have been widely acclaimed, and of Beowulf the poet Charles Causley has written, 'the poem has at last found its translator'.
Introduction
HEROIC POEMS
1. Deor
2. The Finnesburh Fragment
3. Waldere
4. The Battle of Maldon
5. The Battle of Brunanburh
LAWS
6. The Laws of Wihtred
7. Trial by Ordeal
8. Canute's Letter to the People of England
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE
9. Vortigern's Innovation (449); Cynewulff and Cyneheard (757); Fiery Dragons in Northumbria (793); Ashdown and Other Engagements (878); King Alfred and Guthrum (878); Stamford Bridge and Hastings (1066)
ELEGIES
10. The Wanderer
11. The Seafarer
12. The Wife's Lament
13. The Husband's Message
14. Wulf
15. The Ruin
EXPLORATION
16. Ohthere's Voyage to the White Sea
17. Wulfstan's Visit to Estonia
EPIC
18. Beowulf
THE KINGDOM OF GOD
19. King Edwin's Council
20. Caedmon's Vision
21. Cuthbert's Death and Disinterment
22. Bede on Himself
GREETINGS IN CHRIST
23. from Pope Gregory I to Canidus
24. from Boniface to Fulrad, Abbot of St. Denis
25. from Cuthbert, Abbot of Wearmouth, to Lul
26. from Alcuin to Ethelred, King of Northumbria
27. from Charlesmagne to Offa, King of mercia
28. from Radbrod, Prior of St. Samson's at Dol, to King AEthelstan
CHRISTIAN POEMS
29. Caedmon's Hymn
30. Advent Lyrics I, II and VII
31. The Dream of the Rood
32. Durham
33. Bede's Death Song
EXAMPLE AND EXHORTATION
34. Life of King Alfred (extract)
35. Preface to St. Gregory's Pastoral Care
36. The Passion of St. Edmund
I SAW A STRANGE CREATURE...
38. Thirty-One Ridddles
CHARACTERS, TRACTS AND WILLS
39. A Grant of Land and Crediton
40. An Estate Memorandum: Duties and Perquisites
41. A Marriage Agreement
42. A Manumission
43. The Will of King Alfred
CHAMS AND REMEDIES
44. Three Charmes
45. Bald's Leechbook (extract)
ALLEGORY
46. from The Phoenix
47. The Panther
48. The Whale
SERMON
49. The Sermon of the Wolf to the English
DESTINY
50. The Fortunes of Men
Bibliography
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