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Old English poetry and prose literature.
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Old English Heptateuch and Aelfric's Libellus de Veteri Testamento et Novo, Vol.1
edited by Richard Marsden
The text of the Heptateuch, an eleventh-century translation of the first seven books of the Vulgate Bible into Old English much of it by Aelfric of Eynsham, along with his preface and exegetical Libellus on the Old and New Testaments. The second volume ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
Rudiments of Runelore
by Stephen Pollington
This little volume provides a useful introduction and guide to the ancient runes of the Germanic peoples. It discusses the origins and meaning of all the known runes, and includes text and translations of rune poems and riddles from England, Norway amd ...
Paperback. Price GB £5.95
Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses
edited and translated by Robert K. Upchurch
As a leading churchman writing at the time of the Viking raids at the end of the first millennium, AElfric wrote his "Lives" to bolster the faith of English Christians. These three stories of couples who marry but do not consummate their unions point to ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.99
Old English Homily: Precedent, Practice and Appropriation
edited by Aaron J. Kleist
A collection of new essays on Anglo-Saxon homiletics, currently a remarkably vibrant field of study. The first five essays consider various contexts of and influences on Anglo-Saxon homilies: patristic and early medieval Latin sources, continental ...
Hardback. Price GB £77.00
Old English, Poems Prose and Lessons
Read by Stephen Pollington
Designed to be used in conjenction with Stephen Pollington's 'First Steps in Old English' this two CD set provides a good starting point for those wishing to learn Old English. The first CD contains readings of the great Old English texts, such as the ...
CD/CDRom. Price GB £15.00
Origins of Beowulf : From Virgil to Wiglaf
by Richard North
This book suggests that the Old English epic Beowulf was composed in the winter of 826-7 as a requiem for King Beornwulf of Mercia on behalf of Wiglaf, the ealdorman who succeeded him. The place of composition is given as the minster of Breedon on the ...
Hardback. Price GB £65.00
Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Eamonn O'Carragain
edited by Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts
The twenty-six essays draw together insights from fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, and liturgy to reflect on the literature and material culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The first section looks outwards from the insular context, to medieval ...
Hardback. Price GB £94.00
Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburh
translated by Louis J Rodrigues
Louis Rodrigues describes his new translation as a "rendering" because he attempts to transfer the idiom of thge original into its nearest modern equivalent. This is a parallel text and translation complete with notes, glossary and genealogies. ...
Paperback. Price GB £9.00
The Parker Chronicle
edited by A. H. Smith
This revised edition, now available as a digital reprint, aims to present a reliable text of a section of the oldest manuscript of the Chronicle. 80p. (Exeter UP 1981, Rep 2006)
Paperback. Price GB £10.99
Water and Fire: The myth of the Flood in Anglo-Saxon England
by Daniel Anlezark
Noah's Flood is one of the most popular and enduring stories from the Bible, and flood myths still exist in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
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