Placeholder text

Go to cart

The Anglo-Saxon world

By Kevin Crossley-Holland

The Anglo-Saxon world Books

The Anglo-Saxon world

0 - Default Title
Description
The Anglo-Saxon World introduces the Anglo-Saxons in their own words their chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all their magnificent poems. Most of the greatest surviving poems are printed here in their entirety: the reader will find the whole of Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, and the haunting elegiac poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these islands as pagans, subscribing to the Germanic heroic code, and yet within 200 years had become Christian to such effect that England was the centre of missionary endeavour and, for a time, the heart of European civilisation.Kevin Crossley-Holland places the poems and prose in context with his skilful interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon world; his translations have been widely acclaimed, and of Beowulf Charles Causley has written 'the poem has at last found its translator'. The many illustrations draw on the splendours of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and jewellery and a wealth of archaeological finds. KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND is a poet and writer who takes a particular interest in the middle ages and in traditional tale: in addition to his translations from the Anglo-Saxon, he is also the author of versions of the Norse myths.


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
Product details
Publication Date:
1983
Publisher:
Barnes & Noble Books
Languages:
Published: English
ISBN10:
038920367X
Weight:
458 g
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out