TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. PAGAN POETRY 1. EPIC OR HEROIC GROUP PAGE [Widsith] 15 [Deor’s Lament] 26 [Waldhere] 29 [The Fight at Finnsburg] 34 2. GNOMIC GROUP Charms [1. Charm for Bewitched Land] 38 [2. Charm for a Sudden Stitch] 42 Riddles [1. A Storm] 44 [2. A Storm] 45 [3. A Storm] 46 [5. A Shield] 48 [7. A Swan] 49 [8. A Nightingale] 49 [14. A Horn] 50 [15. A Badger] 51 [23. A Bow] 52 [26. A Bible] 52 [45. Dough] 54 [47. A Bookworm] 54 [60. A Reed] 54 [Exeter Gnomes] 56 [The Fates of Men] 58 3. ELEGIAC GROUP [The Wanderer] 62 [The Seafarer] 68 [The Wife’s Lament] 72 [The Husband’s Message] 75 [The Ruin] 78 II. CHRISTIAN POETRY 1. CÆDMONIAN SCHOOL. [Cædmon’s Hymn] 83 [Bede’s Death Song] 84 [Selection From Genesis—The Offering of Isaac] 85 [Selection From Exodus—The Crossing of the Red Sea] 90 2. CYNEWULF AND HIS SCHOOL a. Cynewulf [(1) Selections from Christ] 95 [1. Hymn to Christ] 96 [2. Hymn to Jerusalem] 96 [3. Joseph and Mary] 97 [4. Runic Passage] 100 [(2) Selections from Elene] 103 [1. The Vision of the Cross] 103 [2. The Discovery of the Cross] 105 b. Anonymous Poems of the Cynewulfian School [(1) The Dream of the Rood] 108 [(2) Judith] 116 [(3) The Phœnix] 132 [(4) The Grave ] 157 III. POEMS FROM THE CHRONICLE [The Battle of Brunnanburg] 159 [The Battle of Maldon] 163 APPENDIX—PROSE SELECTIONS [Account of the Poet Cædmon] 179 [Alfred’s Preface to His Translation of Gregory’s “Pastoral Care”] 183 [Conversion of Edwin] 187 [Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan] 189