Old and Middle English C.890-C.1400: An Anthology Book

	Alphabetical List of Authors and Works
	Preface and Acknowledgements to the First Edition
	Preface and Acknowledgements to the Second Edition
	Chronology of Events and Literary Landmarks
	Introduction
	Bede's Ecclesiastical History	1
	Caedmon's Hymn	1
	The Settlement of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes	2
	The Life of Caedmon	4
	Alfred	10
	Preface to the Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care	10
	Translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy	14
	The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	20
	Annal 755: Cynewulf and Cyneheard	20
	Annals 855-78: The Death of Edmund; Alfred's Battles with the Vikings	22
	The Reign of Aeoelstan and The Battle of Brunanburh	28
	The Exeter Book	35
	Advent Lyrics VII and VIII (from Christ I)	36
	The Wanderer	42
	The Seafarer	48
	The Whale	54
	Deor	60
	Wulf and Eadwacer	64
	Exeter Book Riddles 5, 7, 12, 26, 29, 30, 43-6, 55	66
	The Wife's Lament	76
	The Husband's Message	80
	The Ruin	84
	The Vercelli Book	89
	The Fates of the Apostles	90
	Vercelli Homily X	98
	The Dream of the Rood	108
	Aelfric	116
	Old English Preface to his First Series of Catholic Homilies	116
	Homily on the Nativity of the Innocents	122
	Old English Preface to his Lives of Saints	130
	Passion of Saint Edmund	132
	The Battle of Maldon	141
	The Beowulf-Manuscript	156
	Beowulf	157
	Judith	196
	The Junius Manuscript	213
	Exodus	213
	Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos	226
	Apollonius of Tyre	234
	The Peterborough Chronicle	254
	The Life of Saint Margaret	260
	The Hymns of Saint Godric	272
	The Orrmulum	273
	Cambridge, Trinity College B. 14. 52	281
	Poema Morale	282
	Trinity Homily 33	286
	Hali Meidhad	293
	Ancrene Wisse	307
	Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 86	328
	Ubi Sount Qui Ante Nos Fuerount?	328
	Stond Wel, Moder, Ounder Rode	330
	The Fox and the Wolf	332
	Dame Sirip	338
	Love is Sofft	348
	Arundel 292: The Bestiary	350
	Oxford, Jesus College 29	352
	The Love-Ron of Friar Thomas Hales	352
	London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A. IX	359
	Lazamon's Brut	359
	The Owl and the Nightingale	370
	Lyrics from Cambridge, Trinity College B. 14. 39	406
	Of One That is So Fair and Bright	406
	When I Think on Domesday	407
	When the Turf is Thy Tower	408
	A Saying of Saint Bernard	409
	I Sing of One That Is Matchless	409
	An Orison to Our Lady	409
	The South English Legendary	411
	The Life of Saint Wulfstan	411
	Cursor Mundi	417
	Robert Mannyng of Brunne	422
	The Chronicle	422
	The Land of Cockayne	431
	The Auchinleck Manuscript	436
	Sir Orfeo	436
	London, British Library, Harley 2253	449
	Earth upon Earth	449
	Alysoun	450
	Spring	451
	Advice to Women	452
	An Old Man's Prayer	453
	Blow, Northerne Wynd	455
	The Death of King Edward I	458
	I Syke when Y Singe	460
	An Autumn Song	462
	King Horn	463
	The Ayenbite of Inwit	494
	Richard Rolle	498
	Ego Dormio	498
	Ghostly Gladness	504
	Athelston	505
	Ywain and Gawain	523
	Wynnere and Wastoure	535
	William Langland	547
	Piers Plowman	547
	Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales	584
	The General Prologue	585
	The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	602
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	628
	Select Bibliography	651
	Glossary of Common Hard Words	668
	Index of Manuscripts	671
	General Index	673