Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index.
Contents
Poems from The Exeter book: The wanderer -- The gifts of mortals -- Precepts -- The seafarer -- Vainglory -- Widsith -- The fortunes of mortals -- Maxims I -- The order of the world -- The rhyming poem -- Deor -- Wulf and Eadwacer -- The wife's lament -- Resignation (B): An exile's lament -- Pharaoh -- The husband's message -- The ruin.
Poems from The Anglo-Saxon minor poems: Durham -- The rune poem -- Solomon and Saturn -- Maxim II -- A proverb from Winfrid's time -- Bede's death song -- Latin-English proverbs -- Metrical charms.
Language
Poems in Old English with English translations on facing pages; introduction in English.
