The Anglo-Saxon world : an anthology /
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. --From publisher's description.
| Други автори: | Crossley-Holland, Kevin. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Серия: |
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Съдържание:
- Deor
- The Finnesburh fragment
- Waldere
- The battle of Maldon
- The battle of Brunanburh
- The laws of Wihtred
- Trial by ordeal
- Canute's letter to the people of England
- The Anglo-Saxon chronicle. 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)
- The wanderer
- The seafarer
- The wife's lament
- The husband's message
- Wulf
- The ruin
- Ohthere's voyage to the white sea
- Wulfstan's visit to Estonia
- Beowulf
- King Edwin's council
- Caedmon's vision
- Cuthbert's death and disinterment
- Bede on himself
- From Pope Gregory I to Candidus
- From Boniface to Fulrad, Abbot of St. Denis
- From Cuthbert, Abbot of Wearmouth, to Lul
- From Alcuin to Ethelred, King of Northumbria
- From Charlemagne to Offa, King of Mercia
- From Radbrod, Prior of St Samson's at Dol, to King Æthelstan
- Caedmon's hymn
- Advent lyrics I, II and VII
- The dream of the rood
- Durham
- Bede's death song
- Life of King Alfred (extract)
- Preface to St Gregory's Pastoral care
- A colloquy
- The passion of St Edmund
- Thirty-one riddles
- A grant of land at Crediton
- An estate memorandum : duties and perquisites
- A marriage agreement
- A manumission
- The will of King Alfred
- Three charms
- Bald's Leechbook (extract)
- [Excerpt] from the Phoenix
- The panther
- The whale
- The sermon of the wolf to the English
- The fortunes of men.