The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records: A Collective Edition. Vol. 6. The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems

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. 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 Book VI in The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, A Collective Edition published by Columbia University Press, with Preface and Introduction by the Editor, Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie.