The Anglo-Saxon World An Anthology

by Crossley-Holland, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780192835475
• ISBN10: 0192835475
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety.

Table of Contents

Introduction	x
Heroic Poems	1	(22)
Deor	7	(1)
The Finnesburh Fragment	8	(1)
Waldere	9	(2)
The Battle of Maldon	11	(8)
The Battle of Brunanburh	19	(4)
Laws	23	(10)
The Laws of Wihtred	26	(2)
Trial by Ordeal	28	(1)
Canute's Letter to the People of England	29	(4)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	33	(12)
Vortigern's Invitation (499); Cynewulf and Cyneheard (757); Fiery Dragons in North-umbria (793); Ashdown and Other Engagements (878); King Alfred and Guthrum (878); Stamford Bridge and Hastings (1066)	37	(8)
Elegies	45	(16)
The Wanderer	50	(3)
The Seafarer	53	(3)
The Wife's Lament	56	(1)
The Husband's Message	57	(2)
Wulf	59	(1)
The Ruin	59	(2)
Exploration	61	(8)
Ohthere's Voyage to the White Sea	64	(3)
Wulfstan's Visit to Estonia	67	(2)
Epic	69	(86)
Beowulf	74	(81)
The Kingdom of God	155	(22)
King Edwin's Council	159	(2)
Caedmon's Vision	161	(2)
Cuthbert's Death and Disinterment	163	(10)
Bede on Himself	173	(4)
Greetings in Christ	177	(16)
from Pope Gregory I to Candidus	182	(1)
from Boniface to Fulrad, Abbot of St Denis	182	(2)
from Cuthbert, Abbot of Wearmouth, to Lul	184	(1)
from Alcuin to Ethelred, King of North-umbria	185	(4)
from Charlemagne to Offa, King of Mercia	189	(2)
from Radbrod, Prior of St Samson's at Dol, to King AEthelstan	191	(2)
Christian Poems	193	(14)
Caedmon's Hymn	197	(1)
Advent Lyrics I, II and VII	197	(3)
The Dream of the Rood	200	(4)
Durham	204	(1)
Bede's Death Song	205	(2)
Example and Exhortation	207	(28)
Life of King Alfred (extract)	213	(5)
Preface to St Gregory's Pastoral Care	218	(2)
A Colloquy	220	(8)
The Passion of St Edmund	228	(7)
I Saw a Strange Creature...	235	(16)
Thirty-One Riddles	238	(13)
Charters, Tracts and Wills	251	(16)
A Grant of Land at Credition	255	(2)
An Estate Memorandum: Duties and Perquisites	257	(4)
A Marriage Agreement	261	(1)
A Manumission	262	(1)
The Will of King Alfred	262	(5)
Charms and Remedies	267	(12)
Three Charms	270	(1)
Bald's Leechbook (extract)	271	(8)
Allegory	279	(12)
from The Phoenix	283	(2)
The Panther	285	(2)
The Whale	287	(4)
Sermon	291	(10)
The Sermon of the Wolf to the English	294	(7)
Destiny	301	(6)
The Fortunes of Men	304	(3)
Bibliography	307