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The Anglo-Saxon minor poems / edited by Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie.

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The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems (1942) contains the many verse texts, most of them short, which are scattered here and there in manuscripts not primarily devoted to Anglo-Saxon poetry. Some, like Battle of Maldon, are well-known, while others are less so. Each verse text is accompanied by an introductio...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Dobbie, Elliott Van Kirk, 1907-1970 (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Old English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Series:Routledge library editions: The Anglo-Saxon world ; volume 4.
Subjects:
English poetry > Old English, ca. 450-1100.
Table of Contents:
  • The Battle of Finnsburh
  • Waldere
  • The Battle of Maldon
  • The poems of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle
  • Durham
  • The rune poem
  • Solomon and Saturn
  • The menologium
  • Maxims II
  • A proverb from Winfrid's time
  • The judgment day II
  • An exhortation to Christian living
  • A summons to prayer
  • The Lord's Prayer II
  • The Gloria I
  • The Lord's Prayer III
  • The creed
  • Fragments of Psalms
  • The Kentish hymn
  • Psalm 50
  • The Gloria II
  • A prayer
  • Thureth
  • Aldhelm
  • The seasons for fasting
  • Caedmon's hymn
  • Bede's death song
  • The Leiden riddle
  • Latin-English proverbs
  • The metrical preface to the Pastoral care
  • The metrical epilogue to the Pastoral care
  • The metrical preface to Gregory's dialogues
  • The metrical epilogue to MS. 41, Corpus Christi College
  • The Ruthwell cross
  • The Brussels cross
  • The Franks casket
  • The metrical charms.

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