This volume, numbered Volume VI of the "Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records", contains the many verse texts, most of them short, which are scattered here and there in manuscripts not primarily devoted to Anglo-Saxon poetry. The title, "The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems", seems the most convenient one available, although a number of the poems, notably the "Battle of Maldon" and "Solomon and Saturn", are not "minor" in the ordinary sense of that word. As a general rule, only those poems have been admitted which are written in the regular alliterative verse; but the "Death oe Alfred", which has rime instead of alliteration, is included with the five other Chronicle poems, following the practice of earlier editors, and the metrical charms are printed in their entirety, though most of them are only partly in verse and their metrical structure is often far from regular. The only poem included here which has not previously been published is the "Seasons for Fasting", discovered not many years ago in a British Museum manuscript.
Author(s): Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie (ed.)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 1942
Language: English
Pages: 404
City: New York
PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
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 AND 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 BENEDICTINE OFFICE: THE LORD’S PRAYER III, THE CREED, FRAGMENTS OF PSALMS
THE KENTISH HYMN AND PSALM 50
THE GLORIA II
A PRAYER
THURETH
ALDHELM
THE SEASONS FOR FASTING
CÆDMON’S HYMN
BEDE’S DEATH SONG
THE LEIDEN RIDDLE
LATIN-ENGLISH PROVERBS
THE METRICAL PREFACE AND EPILOGUE TO THE ALFREDIAN TRANSLATION OF 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 AND THE BRUSSELS CROSS
THE FRANKS CASKET
THE METRICAL CHARMS
ACCENT MARKS IN THE MANUSCRIPTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABBREVIATIONS
THE BATTLE OE FINNSBURH
WALDERE
THE BATTLE OF MALDON
THE POEMS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE
DURHAM
THE RUNE POEM
SOLOMON AND SATURN
THE MENOLOGIUM AND 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 BENEDICTINE OFFICE: THE LORD’S PRAYER III, THE CREED, FRAGMENTS OF PSALMS
THE KENTISH HYMN AND PSALM 50
THE GLORIA II
A PRAYER
THURETH
ALDHELM
THE SEASONS FOR FASTING
CÆDMON’S HYMN
BEDE’S DEATH SONG
THE LEIDEN RIDDLE
LATIN-ENGLISH PROVERBS
THE METRICAL PREFACE AND EPILOGUE TO THE ALFREDIAN TRANSLATION OF 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 AND THE BRUSSELS CROSS
THE FRANKS CASKET
THE METRICAL CHARMS
TEXTS
THE BATTLE OF FINNSBURH
NOTES
WALDERE
NOTES
THE BATTLE OF MALDON
NOTES
THE POEMS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE
1. THE BATTLE OF BRUNANBURH (937)
NOTES
2. THE CAPTURE OF THE FIVE BOROUGHS (942)
NOTES
3. THE CORONATION OF EDGAR (973)
NOTES
4. THE DEATH OF EDGAR (975)
NOTES
5. THE DEATH OF ALFRED (1036)
NOTES
6. THE DEATH OF EDWARD (1065)
NOTES
DURHAM
NOTES
THE RUNE POEM
NOTES
SOLOMON AND SATURN
NOTES
THE MENOLOGIUM
NOTES
MAXIMS II
NOTES
A PROVERB FROM WINFRID’S TIME
NOTES
THE JUDGMENT DAY II
NOTES
AN EXHORTATION TO CHRISTIAN LIVING
NOTES
A SUMMONS TO PRAYER
NOTES
THE LORD’S PRAYER II
NOTES
THE GLORIA I
NOTES
THE LORD’S PRAYER III
NOTES
THE CREED
NOTES
FRAGMENTS OF PSALMS
NOTES
THE KENTISH HYMN
NOTES
PSALM 50
NOTES
THE GLORIA II
NOTES
A PRAYER
NOTES
THURETH
NOTES
ALDHELM
NOTES
THE SEASONS FOR FASTING
NOTES
CÆDMON’S HYMN
NOTES
BEDE’S DEATH SONG
NOTES
THE LEIDEN RIDDLE
NOTES
LATIN-ENGLISH PROVERBS
NOTES
THE METRICAL PREFACE TO THE PASTORAL CARE
NOTES
THE METRICAL EPILOGUE TO THE PASTORAL CARE
NOTES
THE METRICAL PREFACE TO WÆRFERTH’S TRANSLATION OF GREGORY’S DIALOGUES
NOTES
THE METRICAL EPILOGUE TO MS. 41, CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
NOTES
THE RUTHWELL CROSS
NOTES
THE BRUSSELS CROSS
NOTES
THE FRANKS CASKET
NOTES
THE METRICAL CHARMS
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. FOR LOSS OF CATTLE
11. A JOURNEY CHARM
12. AGAINST A WEN
NOTES
NOTES
ABBREVIATIONS IN THE NOTES
