Old English Reader

ISBN-13: 9781551118420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 344 str.

Murray Mcgillivray

Opis

A compilation that includes prose, metrical prose, and poetry, that represents a variety of genres (saints' lives and metrical charms as well as heroic verse). A companion website includes texts with clickable glossing, as well as additional texts for study.

Spis treści

• Introduction
• PROSE
• Alfred’s Preface to Gregory
• Apollonius of Tyre
• Bede’s Account of the Conversion of Edwin of Northumbria
• Bede’s Account of the Poet Caedmon
• Cynewulf and Cyneheard
• The Great Army
• Sermo Lupi ad Anglos
• The Voyage of Wulfstan to Estland
• The Wonders of the East
• AELFRICIAN VERSE
• Ælfric’s Life of Saint Eugenia
• Ælfric’s Life of St. Oswald
• POETRY
• The Battle of Maldon
• Beowulf
• Deor
• The Dream of the Rood
• Exeter Book Riddles
• The Fortunes of Men
• Judith
• The Husband’s Message
• Metrical Charms
• The Seafarer
• The Story of Isaac
• The Wanderer
• The Whale
• The Wife’s Lament
• Wulf and Eadwacer
• Glossary