Old English Poems Translated Into The Original Meter Together W

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Widsith now spoke, his word-hoard unlocked, He who traveled the widest among tribes of men, Farthest among folk: on the floor he received The rarest of gifts. From the race of t...

21. _Eormanric_ was king of the Goths and uncle to Theodoric. He died about 375 A.D. He put his only son to death, had his wife torn to pieces, and ruined the happiness of many...

There is no proof as to the authorship. There were probably one hundred of them in the original collection though only about ninety are left. Many of them are translations from...

Full often through the grace of God it happens That man and wife to the world bring forth A babe by birth; they brightly adorn it, And tend it and teach it till the time comes o...

First I shall freely confide to you The tale of this tablet of wood. As a tree I grew up On the coast of Mecealde, close by the sea. Frequently thence to foreign lands 5 I set f...

1. Advent, largely from the Roman breviary. 2. Ascension, taken from an Ascension sermon of Pope Gregory. 3. Second coming of Christ, taken from an alphabetical Latin hymn on th...

Lo, I shall tell you the truest of visions, A dream that I dreamt in the dead of night While people reposed in peaceful sleep. I seemed to see the sacred tree 5 Lifted on high i...

Then a band of bold knights busily gathered, 200 Keen men at the conflict; with courage they stepped forth, Bearing banners, brave-hearted companions, And fared to the fight, fo...

When the wind is at rest and the weather is fair, And the holy gem of heaven is shining, And clouds have flown and the forces of water 185 Are standing stilled, and the storms a...

Then high over the roofs the holy Ruler 590 Shines on the souls of the saved and the loyal. Radiant fowls follow around him Brightest of birds, in bliss exulting, The chosen and...

. . . . . . . . . . was broken; He bade the young barons abandon their horses, To drive them afar and dash quickly forth, In their hands and brave heart to put all hope of succe...

Thereupon, the abbess, praising and honoring the _70_ gift of God in this man, persuaded him to leave the condition of a layman and take monastic vows. And this he did with grea...

PAGE Account of the Poet Cædmon 179 Alfred's Preface to His Translation of Gregory's "Pastoral Care" 183 Badger, A 51 Battle of Brunnanburg, The 159 Battle of Maldon, The 163 Be...