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During the Old English period writers produced a variety of poems in many different genres, such as secular heroic poems, Old Testament narrative poems, poems about Christian saints, and elegiac poems.

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• Cynewulf
• Dream of the Rood
• Exeter Book Riddles
• Metrical Charms
• Seafarer
• Wanderer

Resources in This Category

• Andreas

  http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Andreas_Kennedy.pdf
  Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

• Andreas

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15225
  Modern English translation by Robert K. Root. Includes introduction and notes. Project Gutenberg e-book.

• Battle of Brunanburh

  http://loki.stockton.edu/~kinsellt/litresources/brun/brun1.html
  Includes background information, Old English text, and modern English translations. Clicking on any line of the Old English text gives a literal translation of the line.

• Battle of Brunanburh

  http://catterall.net/OE/texts/brun_me.html
  Modern English translation by John Osborne.

• Battle of Brunanburh Resource Site

  http://www.brunanburh.org.uk/
  Includes Old English text, modern English translation, and resources for study of the poem and battle. Provides modern English translations of relevant texts.

• Battle of Finnsburh

  http://www.heorot.dk/finnsburh-i.html
  Old English text and facing modern English translation by Benjamin Slade. Includes introduction and explanatory notes.

• Battle of Finnsburh

  http://bernardcornwellbookgroup.blogspot.com/2009/08/battle-of-finnsburh-fragment-and.html
  Modern English translation of this poem and the Finn episode in Beowulf. Includes background information.

• Brussels Cross

  http://public.gettysburg.edu/~cfee/MedievalNorthAtlantic/brussels/index.html
  Old English text with modern English translation.

• Christ and Satan

  http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/relg/historygeography/CodexJunius11/chap56.html
  Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

• Deor

  http://www.heorot.dk/deor-i.html
  Old English text and facing modern English translation by Benjamin Slade. Includes introduction and explanatory notes.

• Deor

  http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=Deor
  Old English text with facing modern English translation and textual notes.

• Deor

  http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEPoetry/Deorfram.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Deor

  http://www.odins-gift.com/pclass/deor.htm
  Modern English translation by Steve Pollington. Includes a sound recording of the Old English text.

• Durham

  http://www.brindinpress.com/poanodur.htm
  Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.

• Durham

  http://www.brindinpress.com/poanodun.htm
  Old English text with parallel modern English translation by David Lisle Crane.

• Fortunes of Men

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Fortfram.html
  Each word of the Old English text is hot-linked to a corresponding glossary entry.

• Fortunes of Men

  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31172/31172-h/31172-h.htm#c21
  Modern English translation by Stith Thompson and Cosette Faust.

• Franks Casket

  http://www.franks-casket.de/
  Includes the texts of the Old English verse inscriptions on the casket and translations into modern English.

• Guthlac

  http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Guthlac_Kennedy.pdf
  Charles W. Kennedy's modern English translation of the Guthlac A and Guthlac B poems.

• Husband's Message

  http://www.elfinspell.com/EarlyEnglishHusband.html
  Modern English translation. From Early English Poems Selected and Edited by Henry S. Pancoast and John Duncan Spaeth.

• Husband's Message

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Husbfram.htm
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Husband's Message

  http://www.englisc-gateway.com/bbs/topic/11183-the-husbands-message/
  Modern English translation. From the Anglo-Saxon Foundation.

• Judgment Day I

  http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/literature/judgementday1/judgementday1.html
  Old English text and modern English translation by T.A. Shippey.

• Judgment Day II

  http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/literature/judgementday2/judgementday2.html
  Old English text and modern English translation by J.R. Lumby.

• Menologium

  https://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/anonymous-olde-english/the-menologium-preface-to-the-anglo-saxon-chronicles/
  Modern English translation.

• Meters of Boethius

  http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/ENG720/SdgTrans/SedgefieldMetersTrans.htm
  Modern English translation by Walter Sedgefield.

• Meters of Boethius

  http://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/meters-of-boethius/
  Modern English translation by Aaron Hostetter.

• Panther

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14529
  Albert S. Cook's edition of the three poems that make up the Old English bestiary: Panther, Whale, and Partridge. Includes introduction, parallel modern English verse translations by James H. Pittman, prose translations by Cook, and brief footnotes. Project Gutenberg eBook.

• Panther

  http://www.brindinpress.com/porodal2.htm
  Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.

• Phoenix

  http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Phoenix_Kennedy.pdf
  Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

• Phoenix

  http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/literature/phoenix/phoenix.html
  Old English text and modern English translation by S.A.J. Bradley.

• Riming Poem

  http://elstudento.org/articles.php?article_id=2479
  Modern English translation. Includes analysis and interpretation of the poem.

• Ruin

  http://thelmawilcox.blogspot.com/2008/07/ruin-translated-by-michael-alexander.html
  Modern English translation by Michael Alexander.

• Ruin

  http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/oeruin.htm
  Old English text with facing modern English translation by Sian Echard,

• Ruin

  http://www.brindinpress.com/pohamrui.htm
  Old English text with facing modern English translation by Richard Hamer.

• Rune Poem

  http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/rune_poems.html
  Modern English translation by Bruce Dickins, with pictures of each rune. Site also contains modern English translations of rune poems in other ancient Germanic languages.

• Rune Poem

  http://www.odins-gift.com/pclass/asrunepoem.htm
  Old English text with modern English translation. Includes pictures of the runes.

• Ruthwell Cross

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/media_museum/darkages_popup3.html
  Modern English translation of the Old English poem inscribed in runic characters on the Ruthwell Cross. Includes a video on the Ruthwell Cross.

• Soul and Body I

  http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/literature/soul1/soulbody1.html
  Old English text and modern English translation by T.A. Shippey.

• Waldere

  http://www.heorot.dk/waldere-i.html
  Old English text and facing-page translation by Benjamin Slade. Includes introduction and explanatory notes.

• Waldere

  http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/anglica/Chronology/08thC/Waldere/wal_intr.html
  Old English text together with the related Latin poem Waltharius.

• Waldere

  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31172/31172-h/31172-h.htm#c03
  Modern English translation by Stith Thomson and Cosette Faust.

• Whale

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Whalefram.htm
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Widsith

  http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/middleages/topic_4/widsith.htm
  Modern English translation by S.A.J. Bradley.

• Widsith

  http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~enm/widsith.htm
  Modern English translation by Bella Millet.

• Wife's Lament

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl403/wife.htm
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary. At University of Calgary.

• Wife's Lament

  http://web.utk.edu/~rliuzza/514/pdf/The%20Wife's%20Lament.pdf
  Modern English translation by Roy Liuzza.

• Wife's Lament

  http://www.brindinpress.com/pohamwif.htm
  Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Richard Hamer.

• Wulf and Eadwacer

  http://www.lightspill.com/poetry/oe/wulf_eadwacer.html
  Modern English translation by Jonathan Glenn,

• Wulf and Eadwacer

  http://www.oldenglishaerobics.net/wulf.html
  Old English text with modern English definition of each word.

• Wulf and Eadwacer

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Wulffram.htm
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Wulf and Eadwacer

  http://www.brindinpress.com/pohamwul.htm
  Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Richard Hamer.

 

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