Revised and expanded edition / with an introduction and a parallel verse translation by Richard Hamer.
Description
xx, 227 pages ; 20 cm
Note
Originally published: 1970.
Contents
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.
