Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Old English Poems, by Various, Translated by Cosette Faust Newton and Stith Thompson
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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
WIDSITH
DEOR’S LAMENT
WALDHERE
A
B
THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG
2. GNOMIC GROUP
CHARMS
RIDDLES
EXETER GNOMES
THE FATES OF MEN
CHARMS
RIDDLES
EXETER GNOMES
THE FATES OF MEN
3. ELEGIAC GROUP
THE WANDERER
THE SEAFARER
THE WIFE’S LAMENT
THE HUSBAND’S MESSAGE
THE RUIN
THE WANDERER
THE SEAFARER
THE WIFE’S LAMENT
THE HUSBAND’S MESSAGE
THE RUIN
1. EPIC OR HEROIC GROUP
WIDSITH
DEOR’S LAMENT
WALDHERE
A
B
THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG
WIDSITH
DEOR’S LAMENT
WALDHERE
A
B
THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG
2. GNOMIC GROUP
CHARMS
RIDDLES
EXETER GNOMES
THE FATES OF MEN
CHARMS
RIDDLES
EXETER GNOMES
THE FATES OF MEN
3. ELEGIAC GROUP
THE WANDERER
THE SEAFARER
THE WIFE’S LAMENT
THE HUSBAND’S MESSAGE
THE RUIN
THE WANDERER
THE SEAFARER
THE WIFE’S LAMENT
THE HUSBAND’S MESSAGE
THE RUIN
II. CHRISTIAN POETRY
1. CÆDMONIAN SCHOOL
SELECTIONS FROM GENESIS
GENESIS A
SELECTIONS FROM EXODUS
SELECTIONS FROM GENESIS
GENESIS A
SELECTIONS FROM EXODUS
2. CYNEWULF AND HIS SCHOOL
a. CYNEWULF
SELECTIONS FROM THE CHRIST
SELECTIONS FROM THE ELENE
SELECTIONS FROM THE CHRIST
SELECTIONS FROM THE ELENE
b. ANONYMOUS POEMS OF THE CYNEWULFIAN SCHOOL
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
JUDITH
THE PHŒNIX
THE GRAVE
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
JUDITH
THE PHŒNIX
THE GRAVE
1. CÆDMONIAN SCHOOL
SELECTIONS FROM GENESIS
GENESIS A
SELECTIONS FROM EXODUS
SELECTIONS FROM GENESIS
GENESIS A
SELECTIONS FROM EXODUS
2. CYNEWULF AND HIS SCHOOL
a. CYNEWULF
SELECTIONS FROM THE CHRIST
SELECTIONS FROM THE ELENE
SELECTIONS FROM THE CHRIST
SELECTIONS FROM THE ELENE
b. ANONYMOUS POEMS OF THE CYNEWULFIAN SCHOOL
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
JUDITH
THE PHŒNIX
THE GRAVE
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
JUDITH
THE PHŒNIX
THE GRAVE
III. POEMS FROM THE CHRONICLE
THE BATTLE OF BRUNNANBURG
THE BATTLE OF MALDON
THE BATTLE OF MALDON
THE BATTLE OF BRUNNANBURG
THE BATTLE OF MALDON
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
ALFRED’S PREFACE TO HIS TRANSLATION OF GREGORY’S “PASTORAL CARE”
THE CONVERSION OF EDWIN.
THE VOYAGES OF OHTHERE AND WULFSTAN
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
ALFRED’S PREFACE TO HIS TRANSLATION OF GREGORY’S “PASTORAL CARE”
THE CONVERSION OF EDWIN.
THE VOYAGES OF OHTHERE AND WULFSTAN
INDEX TO TITLES
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