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The Anglo-Saxon World »

Authors: Kevin Crossley-Holland
ISBN-13: 9780851158853, ISBN-10: 0851158854
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Kevin Crossley-Holland

Book Synopsis

Reissue with new introduction of hardback edition of classic anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose.

	Introduction
	Heroic Poems
1	Deor	5
2	The Finnesburh Fragment	6
3	Waldere	7
4	The Battle of Maldon	10
5	The Battle of Brunanburh	18
	Laws
6	The Laws of Wihtred	25
7	Trial by Ordeal	27
8	Canute's Letter of the People of England	28
	The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
9	Vortigern's Invitation (449); Cynewulf and Cyneheard (757); Fiery Dragons in Northumbria (793); Ashdown and Other Engagements (878); King Alfred and Guthrum (878); Stamford Bridge and Hastings (1066)	35
	Elegies
10	The Wanderer	47
11	The Seafarer	50
12	The Wife's Lament	52
13	The Husband's Message	54
14	Wulf	55
15	The Ruin	55
	Exploration
16	Ohthere's Voyage to the White Sea	61
17	Wulfstan's Visit to Estonia	63
	Epic
18	Beowulf	71
	The Kingdom of God
19	King Edwin's Council	147
20	Caedmon's Vision	148
21	Cuthbert's Death and Disinterment	150
22	Bede on Himself	157
	Greetings in Christ
23	from Pope Gregory I to Candidus	167
24	From Boniface to Fulrad, Abbot of St. Denis	167
25	from Cuthbert, Abbot of Wearmouth, to Lul	168
26	from Alcuin to Ethelred, King of Northumbria	169
27	from Charlemagne to Offa, King of Mercia	172
28	from Radbrod, Prior of St. Samson's at Dol, to King AEthelstan	173
	Christian Poems
29	Caedmon's Hymn	179
30	Advent Lyrics I, II and VII	179
31	The Dream of the Rood	182
32	Durham	185
33	Bede's Death Song	186
	Example and Exhortation
34	Life of King Alfred (extract)	193
35	Preface to St. Gregory's Pastoral Care	197
36	A Colloquy	198
37	The Passion of St. Edmund	204
	I Saw a Strange Creature ...
38	Thirty-One Riddles	213
	Charters, Tracts and Wills
39	A Grant of Land at Crediton	229
40	An Estate Memorandum: Duties and Perquisites	230
41	A Marriage Agreement	233
42	A Manumission	234
43	The Will of King Alfred	234
	Charms and Remedies
44	Three Charms	243
45	Bald's Leechbook (extract)	244
	Allegory
46	from The Phoenix	253
47	The Panther	255
48	The Whale	257
	Sermon
49	The Sermon of the Wolf to the English	265
	Destiny
50	The Fortunes of Men	275
	Illustration and Source Acknowledgements	276