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Individual Poems

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During the Anglo-Saxon period writers produced a variety of poems in many different genres, such as secular heroic poems, Old Testament narrative poems, poems about Christian saints, and elegiac poems. Some examples of great Anglo-Saxon poems are the Wanderer, the Seafarer, and the Dream of the Rood.


1. Alms-Giving - Modern English translation by Richard Hamer, together with the Old English text.
2. Battle of Maldon - Resource concerning the historical Viking attack and battle of 991AD and its commemoration in an Anglo-Saxon poem. Site contains a translation, images of the site, map, and links to other relevant information.
3. Battle of Maldon NEW! - Sound recording of lines 72-110, together with the corresponding Old English text and modern English translation. Includes a brief introduction to the poem and to Old English as a spoken and written language.
4. Christ and Satan - Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.
5. Daniel - Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.
6. Deor - Modern English translation by Richard Hamer, with link to Old English text.
7. Deor - Old English text and modern English translation by Benjamin Slade. Includes introduction and explanatory notes.
8. Durham - Old English text with facing modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.
9. Exodus - Modern English translation by Charles W.Kennedy.
10. Genesis (Genesis A & B) - Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.
11. Judgment Day I - Old English text and modern English translation by T.A. Shippey.
12. Judgment Day II - Old English text and modern English translation by J.R. Lumby.
13. Judith - Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
14. Judith - Modern English translation by Mary Savelli.
15. Maxims I - Excerpt from the Old English text, with facing modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.
16. Maxims II - Modern English translation of lines 1-13 by R.K. Gordon.
17. Meters of Boethius - Modern English translation of the 31 meters of Boethius.
18. Soul and Body I - Old English text and modern English translation by T.A. Shippey.
19. The Battle of Brunanburh - Includes text, modern English translation, Tennyson's famous 19th century translation, glossary, and bibliography.
20. The Battle of Finnsburh - Old English text and modern English translation by Benjamin Slade. Includes introduction and explanatory notes.
21. The Brussels Cross - Old English text and modern English translation.
22. The Franks Casket - Includes the texts of the Old English verse inscriptions on the casket and translations into modern English.
23. The Husband's Message - Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
24. The Lord's Prayer I - Examples of the Lord's Prayer from different stages of English, including the Old English poem Lord's Prayer I, an Old English prose version, excerpts in Middle English, and several modern English versions.
25. The Panther - Old English text with facing modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.
26. The Phoenix - Old English text and modern English translation by S.A.J. Bradley.
27. The Ruin NEW! - Old English text with facing modern English translation by Richard Hamer.
28. The Ruin NEW! - Old English text with facing modern English translation by Michael Alexander.
29. The Rune Poem - Old English text and modern English translation, with pictures of runes embedded in each.
30. The Rune Poem - Old English text with link to modern English translation.
31. The Ruthwell Cross - Provides an introduction to the Ruthwell Cross, a discussion of its age and physical state, images of its faces, and a description of the Latin and runic inscriptions on the faces. The Old English text corresponding to the runic inscriptions is included.
32. The Ruthwell Cross - Modern English translation of the Old English poem inscribed in runic characters on the Ruthwell Cross. Includes a video on the Ruthwell Cross.
33. The Whale - Old English text of lines 1-56 with a facing modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.
34. The Wife's Lament - Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary. At University of Calgary.
35. The Wife's Lament - Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary. At University of Virginia.
36. The Wife's Lament - Old English text and facing modern English translation by Richard Hamer.
37. Waldere (A and B) - Old English text and modern English translation by Benjamin Slade. Includes introduction and explanatory notes.
38. Widsith - Modern English translation by Bella Millet.
39. Wulf and Eadwacer - An edition by Michael Donald Livingston. Includes Old English text, modern English translation, textual notes, and glossary.
40. Wulf and Eadwacer - Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
41. Wulf and Eadwacer - Modern English translation by Richard Hamer.

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