A choice of Anglo-Saxon verse /
Contributor(s): Hamer, R. F. S. (Richard Frederick Sanger) [editor.].
Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2015Edition: Revised and expanded edition.Description: xx, 227 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780571325399; 9780571325399:; 0571325394.Subject(s): English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100. -- Translations into English | English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 | Epic poetry, English (Old) -- Translations into English | English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Modernized versions | Anglo-SaxonsDDC classification: 829.1008 HAMItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 829.1008 HAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0062418 |
Preface -- Introduction: -- General account of Anglo-Saxon poetry -- This translation -- Poems: -- The ruin -- Durham -- The fight at Finnsburh -- The Finnsburh episode from Beowulf -- Waldere -- The Battle of Brunanburh -- The Battle of Maldon -- The wife's lament -- The husband's message -- Wulf and Eadwacer -- Deor -- Riddles -- Gnomic verses -- A charm -- Caedmon's hymn -- Bede's death song -- Almsgiving -- Metrical preface and epilogue to the pastoral care -- Judith -- The dream of the rood -- The wanderer -- The seafarer -- The whale -- The fates of the apostles -- Precepts -- Textual variants.
This volume contains the Old English texts of almost all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer'. These poems are the wellspring of the English poetic tradition, and this anthology provides a window into the mind and culture of the Anglo-Saxons.
Text in English and Old English.