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A choice of Anglo-Saxon verse (1970)

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The essential canon of Old English poetry, with parallel verse translation, in this now classic edition. A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments, riddles and gnomic verses that survive from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, with facing-page verse translations. These poems are the well-spring of the English poetic tradition, and this anthology provides a unique window into the mind and culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The volume is an essential companion to Faber's edition of Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney.… (mer)

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An interesting selection of Anglo-Saxon poetry covering a wide range of subjects.

The one thing about it that disappointed me is that this is actually a re-issued edition from 1070.

http://allbookedup-elena.blogspot.ca/2014/11/a-choice-of-anglo-saxon-verse-ed.ht... (

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ElenaGwynne | Nov 4, 2014 |

excellent dual-language collection of a whole lot of important stuff from a very early period. (

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macha | Jun 29, 2012 |

An Anglo-Saxon Riddle

My dress is silent when I tread the ground
Or stay at home or stir upon the waters.
Sometimes my trappings and the lofty air
Raise me above the dwelling-place of men,
And then the power of clouds carries me far
Above the people; and my ornaments
Loudly resound, send forth a melody
And clearly sing, when I am not in touch
With earth or water, but a flying spirit.

Battles won and lost, separated lovers, ruins, riddles and religion, in the original Anglo-Saxon with a modern English translation on the facing page. Apart from the riddles, my favourites are the battle poems, with the ravens, eagles and wolves prowling around the edges of the battlefield waiting for their turn to feast on the corpses; I have wanted to read "The Battle of Maldon" for a long time, so I was very pleased to find that it was included.* The answer to the riddle above, is a swan. (

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isabelx | Mar 27, 2011 |

My favourite thing about this book is that the Old English text is given on the left hand page with a parallel translation on the right. To me, Hamer's renditions into Modern English blank verse do retain something of the spirit of Old English poetry - I think to a great extent because he often uses alliteration within the line. An accessible book even to those with no knowledge of Old English, containing short chapters on what texts remain in that language and on the stress-based metre commonly used for Old English verse. (

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A choice of Anglo-Saxon verse

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Finnesburg Fragment [Anonymous]

The Husband's Message [Anonymous]

Wulf and Eadwacer [Anonymous]

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The Exeter Books Riddles [Anonymous]

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Preface: The intention of this book is to make available a wide range of the shorter Old English poems with a parallel verse translation.

Only about 30,000 lines of Old English poetry survive; many of the poems which do are fragmentary, and we know the poets and places and dates of composition of almost none of them.

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The essential canon of Old English poetry, with parallel verse translation, in this now classic edition. A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments, riddles and gnomic verses that survive from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, with facing-page verse translations. These poems are the well-spring of the English poetic tradition, and this anthology provides a unique window into the mind and culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The volume is an essential companion to Faber's edition of Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney.

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