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Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems


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THE BATTLE OF FINNSBURH
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WALDERE
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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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“ce bæteran
buton ðam anum ðe ic eac hafa
on stanfate stille gehided.
Ic wat þæt hit ðohte Ðeodric Widian
6

selfum onsendon, and eac sinc micel
maðma mid ði mece, monig oðres mid him
golde gegirwan (iulean genam),
þæs ðe hine of nearwum Niðhades mæg,
Welandes bearn, Widia ut forlet;
ðurh fifela gewe[[OMITTED]]ld forð onette.”
Waldere mað[[OMITTED]]lode, wiga ellenrof,
hæfde him on handa hildefrofre,
guðbilla gripe, gyddode wordum:
“Hwæt! Ðu huru wendest, wine Burgenda,
þæt me Hagenan hand hilde gefremede
and getwæmde [[OMITTED]]ðewigges. Feta, gyf ðu dyrre,
æt ðus heaðuwerigan hare byrnan.
Standeð me her on eaxelum Ælfheres laf,
god and geapneb, golde geweorðod,
ealles unscende æðelinges reaf
to habbanne, þonne hand wereð
feorhhord feondum. Ne bið fah wið me,
þonne [[OMITTED]] unmægas eft ongynnað,
mecum gemetað, swa ge me dydon.
Ðeah mæg sige syllan se ðe symle byð
recon and rædfest ryh[[OMITTED]]a gehwilces.
Se ðe him to ðam halgan helpe gelifeð,
to gode gioce, he þær gearo findeð
[OMITTED]
gif ða earnunga ær geðenceð.
Þonne moten wlance welan britnian,
æhtum wealdan, þæt is”
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