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Tables of Contents for Poems and Prose from the Old English
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
12
Selected Bibliography
xxiii
 
POETRY
3
135
Prosody and Style
3
2
Elegies
5
17
The Wanderer
7
3
The Seafarer
10
4
A Woman's Lament
14
1
Wulf and Eadwacer
15
1
The Husband's Message
16
2
Deor
18
1
The Ruin
19
3
Heroic Poems
22
31
Judith
23
12
Elene
35
4
The Battle of Finnsburh
39
1
The Battle of Brunanburh
40
2
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A.D. 975
42
1
The Battle of Maldon
43
10
Religious Poems
53
54
Caedmon's Hymn
55
1
Bede's Death Song: A Paraphrase
55
1
The Dream of the Rood
55
6
Christ I: Twelve Advent Lyrics
61
12
Genesis A: Abraham and Isaac
73
3
Genesis B
76
19
The Phoenix
95
12
Wisdom Poetry
107
31
Riddle 1
110
1
Riddle 2
110
1
Riddle 3
111
2
Riddle 7
113
1
Riddle 8
113
1
Riddle 11
113
1
Riddle 14
114
1
Riddle 15
114
1
Riddle 25
115
1
Riddle 26
116
1
Riddle 28
116
1
Riddle 29
117
1
Riddle 32
117
1
Riddle 33
118
1
Riddle 44
118
1
Riddle 45
118
1
Riddle 47
119
1
Riddle 57
119
1
Riddle 60
119
1
Riddle 66
120
1
Riddle 87
120
1
Maxims I
120
8
The Fortunes of Men
128
3
Physiologus
131
5
Charm for Bewitched Land
136
2
PROSE
138
83
Paternoster
138
3
Old English Prose
139
2
Historical Prose
141
4
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
141
1
A.D. 449
142
1
A.D. 754
143
1
A.D. 755
143
1
A.D. 793
144
1
Testamentary and Legal Prose
145
17
Old English Wills
145
1
King Alfred's Will
146
4
Elfgifu's Will
150
2
Ealdorman Elfheah's Will
152
1
Ethelfleda's Will
153
1
Wulfwaru's Will
154
2
Ealdorman Ethelwold's Will
156
1
Old English Laws
157
1
King Alfred's Laws: Excerpts
158
1
Judgment by Ordeal
159
2
King Alfred's Treaty with King Guthrum of Denmark
161
1
Religious Prose
162
28
King Alfred's Preface to Gregory's Dialogues
163
1
Aelfric's Sermon for December 27, on the Assumption of Saint John the Apostle
163
9
Aelfric's Preface to His Translation of Genesis
172
5
Sermo Lupi, the Wolf's Sermon
177
6
The Harrowing of Hell
183
7
Social and Instructional Prose
190
26
Bede: Excerpts from the Old English Translation of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People
191
6
King Alfred's Preface to a Presentation Copy of a Translation of Saint Gregory the Great's Cura Pastoralis, Pastoral Care
197
3
King Alfred's Preface to Blossom-Gatherings from Saint Augustine
200
1
Aelfric's Dialogues (Colloquies)
201
15
Medical and Magical Prose
216
5
Eight Charms
216
5
Glossary
221
4
Proposed Solutions to the Riddles
225