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THE BATTLE OF FINNSBURH

WALDERE

II.

THE BATTLE OF MALDON

THE POEMS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE

1. THE BATTLE OF BRUNANBURH (937)

2. THE CAPTURE OF THE FIVE BOROUGHS (942)

3. THE CORONATION OF EDGAR (973)

4. THE DEATH OF EDGAR (975)

5. THE DEATH OF ALFRED (1036)

6. THE DEATH OF EDWARD (1065)

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 SEASONS FOR FASTING

CÆDMON'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 WÆRFERTH'S TRANSLATION OF GREGORY'S DIALOGUES

THE METRICAL EPILOGUE TO MS. 41, CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

1. FOR UNFRUITFUL LAND

2. THE NINE HERBS CHARM

3. AGAINST A DWARF

4. FOR A SUDDEN STITCH

5. FOR LOSS OF CATTLE

6. FOR DELAYED BIRTH

7. FOR THE WATER-ELF DISEASE

8. FOR A SWARM OF BEES

9. FOR THEFT OF CATTLE

10.

10. FOR LOSS OF CATTLE

11.

11. A JOURNEY CHARM

12.

12. AGAINST A WEN

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8. FOR A SWARM OF BEES

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MS. 41, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Wið ymbe nim eorþan, oferweorp mid þinre swiþran handa under þinum swiþran fet, and cwet:

Fo ic under fot, funde ic hit.
Hwæt, eorðe mæg wið ealra wihta gehwilce
and wið andan and wið æminde
and wið þa micelan mannes tungan.

And wiððon forweorp ofer greot, þonne hi swirman, and cweð:

Sitte ge, sigewif, sigað to eorþan!
Næfre ge wilde to wuda fleogan.
Beo ge swa gemindige mines godes,
swa bið manna gehwilc metes and eþeles.