Ebook: The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology

Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety.

Includes:

Deor
The Finnesburh fragment
Waldere
The battle of Maldon
The battle of Brunanburh
The laws of Wihtred
Trial by ordeal
Canute's letter to the people of England
The Anglo-Saxon chronicle. Vortigern's invitation (449) ; Cynewulf and Cyneheard (757) ; Fiery dragons in Northumbria (793) ; Ashdown and other engagements (878) ; King Alfred and Guthrum (878) ; Stamford Bridge and Hastings (1066)
The wanderer
The seafarer
The wife's lament
The husband's message
Wulf
The ruin
Ohthere's voyage to the white sea
Wulfstan's visit to Estonia
Beowulf
King Edwin's council
Caedmon's vision
Cuthbert's death and disinterment
Bede on himself
From Pope Gregory I to Candidus
From Boniface to Fulrad, Abbot of St. Denis
From Cuthbert, Abbot of Wearmouth, to Lul
From Alcuin to Ethelred, King of Northumbria
From Charlemagne to Offa, King of Mercia
From Radbrod, Prior of St Samson's at Dol, to King Æthelstan
Caedmon's hymn
Advent lyrics I, II and VII
The dream of the rood
Durham
Bede's death song
Life of King Alfred (extract)
Preface to St Gregory's Pastoral care
A colloquy
The passion of St Edmund
Thirty-one riddles
A grant of land at Crediton
An estate memorandum : duties and perquisites
A marriage agreement
A manumission
The will of King Alfred
Three charms
Bald's Leechbook (extract)
[Excerpt] from the Phoenix
The panther
The whale
The sermon of the wolf to the English
The fortunes of men