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Top: Arts: Literature: World_Literature: British: Anglo-Saxon: Individual_Poems
| Please submit texts, translations, and literary studies of individual Old English poems (other than Beowulf) to this category and its subcategories. For example, submit sites that deal with secular heroic poems like the Battle of Maldon, or with elegiac poems like the Ruin, or with Old Testament narrative poems like Exodus. |
During the Anglo-Saxon 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. Some examples of great Anglo-Saxon poems are the Wanderer, the Seafarer, and the Dream of the Rood.
| Please submit to this category editions, translations, and literary studies of Cynewulf's poems. |
Cynewulf is the only Anglo-Saxon poet who signed his name in his poems. All other Anglo-Saxon poems, except for Caedmon's Hymn, are anonymous.
| Please submit to this category editions, translations, and literary studies of the Dream of the Rood. |
The Dream of the Rood is arguably the greatest religious poem in Old English literature.
| Please submit to this category editions, translations, and literary studies of the Exeter Book riddles. |
The Exeter Book, one of the four major manuscripts containing Old English poems, includes 95 verse riddles. In these riddle the speakers describe themselves and leave the reader to guess who or what they are.
| Please submit to this category editions, translations, and literary studies of the Old English Metrical Charms. |
The Old English Metrical Charms are verse incantations to be used as remedies against hostile spirits, natural catastrophes, and diseases.
| Please submit to this category editions, translations, and literary studies of the Seafarer. |
The Seafarer is one of the great elegiac poems in Old English lterature.
| Please submit to this category editions, translations, and literary studies of the Wanderer. |
The Wanderer is one of the great elegiac poems in Old English lterature.
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