Text and translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem.

The Battle of Maldon

Griffiths, Bill

Religion & Spirituality

Anglo-Saxon Books

This essay on Anglo-Saxon runes first appeared in the journal Archaeologia for 1840; it drew on the work of Wilhelm Grimm, but broke new ground for Anglo-Saxon studies in its survey of the Ruthwell Cross and the Cynewulf poems. This edition includes new notes and translations of the Latin and Old English material quoted in the text.

Anglo-Saxon Runes

History

Kemble, John M.

Europe

This book offers a literal word-by-word translation printed opposite an edited text of Beowulf , a text format that allows students of Old English or the general reader to tackle the poem in its original form. First published in 1991, this edition has been reprinted,

Beowulf

Porter, John

This is one of the very few texts which let us see how life was really lived in monasteries in the early Middle Ages. Written in Old English and preserved in a manuscript of the mid-eleventh century, it consists of 127 signs used by Anglo-Saxon monks during times when the Benedictine Rule forbade them to speak. These indicate the food the monks ate, the clothes they wore, and the books they used in church and chapter, as well as the tools they used in their daily life, and persons they might meet both in the monastery and outside. The text is printed here with a parallel translation. The introduction gives a summary of the background, both historical and textual, as well as a brief look at the later evidence for monastic sign language in England. Extensive notes provide details of textual relationships, explore problems of interpretation, and set out the historical implications of the text.

Monasteriales Indicia: The Anglo-Saxon Sign Language

Banham, Debby

In these poems, King Alfred re-built the Latin verses from Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (`On the Consolation of Philosophy') into new alliterative poems, via an Old English prose intermediary. The stirring images and stories of Boethius' original are retained - streams, legends, animals, volcanoes - and developed for an Anglo-Saxon audience to include the Gothic invasion of Italy (Metre 1), the figure of Welland the Smith (Metre 10), and the hugely disconcerting image of Death's hunt for Mankind (Metre 27). In this new edition clarity of text, informative notes and a helpful glossary have been a priority, for this is one of the most approachable of Old English verse texts; its relative neglect by specialists will mean this text will come as a new experience to many practised students of the language.

Alfred's Metres of Boethius

Griffiths Alfred

Thirty pen-and-ink drawings by Brian Partridge accompany an 80-page booklet by Tony Linsell that provides information about the origin of runes, their meaning, and how to read them.

Rune Cards

Humor & Entertainment

Linsell, Tony

Partridge, Brian

Puzzles & Games

Information from various sources is here brought together to build up a picture of how food was grown, conserved, prepared and eaten during the period from the beginning of the fifth century to the eleventh century. No specialist knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon period or language is needed, and many people will find it fascinating for the views it gives of an important aspect of Anglo-Saxon life and culture.

A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food: Processing and Consumption

Hagen, Ann

A selection of Old English stories as well as an account of the sources, with some practical advice about using them for readers' own creative work or research.

Spellcraft

Herbert, Kathleen

Orthodox Christianity and the English Tradition

Phillips, Fr Andrew

This dictionary and thesaurus makes accessible the core vocabulary relating to Anglo-Saxon life and culture. Words in the dictionary are encoded for easy cross-reference to the thesaurus which has over fifty headings, such as art, church, evil, kin, time, warfare, wealth and so on.

Wordcraft

Pollington, Stephen

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