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Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems


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THE BATTLE OF FINNSBURH
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WALDERE
 I. 
I
 II. 
II
  
THE BATTLE OF MALDON
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THE POEMS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE
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1. THE BATTLE OF BRUNANBURH (937)
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2. THE CAPTURE OF THE FIVE BOROUGHS (942)
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3. THE CORONATION OF EDGAR (973)
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4. THE DEATH OF EDGAR (975)
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5. THE DEATH OF ALFRED (1036)
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6. THE DEATH OF EDWARD (1065)
  
DURHAM
  
THE RUNE POEM
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SOLOMON AND SATURN
 I. 
I
 II. 
II
  
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
  
CÆDMON'S HYMN
  
CÆDMON'S HYMN
  
BEDE'S DEATH SONG
  
BEDE'S DEATH SONG
  
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 WÆRFERTH'S TRANSLATION OF GREGORY'S DIALOGUES
  
THE METRICAL EPILOGUE TO MS. 41, CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
  
THE RUTHWELL CROSS
  
THE BRUSSELS CROSS
  
THE FRANKS CASKET
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THE METRICAL CHARMS
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1. FOR UNFRUITFUL LAND
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2. THE NINE HERBS CHARM
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3. AGAINST A DWARF
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4. FOR A SUDDEN STITCH
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5. FOR LOSS OF CATTLE
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6. FOR DELAYED BIRTH
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7. FOR THE WATER-ELF DISEASE
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8. FOR A SWARM OF BEES
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9. FOR THEFT OF CATTLE
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10. FOR LOSS OF CATTLE
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11. A JOURNEY CHARM
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12. AGAINST A WEN

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THE METRICAL EPILOGUE TO THE PASTORAL CARE

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Text from MS. Hatton 20 (H); variants from MS. 12, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (D)

Ðis is nu se wæterscipe ðe us wereda god
to frofre gehet foldbuendum.
He cwæð ðæt he wolde ðæt on worulde forð
of ðæm innoðum a libbendu
wætru fleowen, ðe wel on hine
gelifden under lyfte. Is hit lytel tweo
ðæt ðæs wæterscipes welsprynge is
on hefonrice, ðæt is halig gæst.
Ðonan hine hlodan halge and gecorene,
siððan hine gierdon ða ðe gode herdon
ðurh halga bec hider on eorðan
geond manna mod missenlice.
Sume hine weriað on gewitlocan,
wisdomes stream, welerum gehæftað,
ðæt he on unnyt ut ne tofloweð.
Ac se wæl wunað on weres breostum
ðurh dryhtnes giefe diop and stille.
Sume hine lætað ofer landscare
riðum torinnan; nis ðæt rædlic ðing,
gif swa hlutor wæter, hlud and undiop,
tofloweð æfter feldum oð hit to fenne werð.
Ac hladað iow nu drincan, nu iow dryhten geaf
ðæt iow Gregorius gegiered hafað
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to durum iowrum dryhtnes welle.
Fylle nu his fætels, se ðe fæstne hider
kylle brohte, cume eft hræðe.
Gif her ðegna hwelc ðyrelne kylle
brohte to ðys burnan, bete hine georne,
ðy læs he forsceade scirost wætra,
oððe him lifes drync forloren weorðe.
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