The Anglo-Saxon world: an anthology

Deor

The Finnesburh fragment

Waldere

The battle of Maldon

The battle of Brunanburh

The laws of Wihtred

Trial by ordeal

Canute's letter to the people of England

The Anglo-Saxon chronicle. Vortigern's invitation (449) ; Cynewulf and Cyneheard (757) ; Fiery dragons in Northumbria (793) ; Ashdown and other engagements (878) ; King Alfred and Guthrum (878) ; Stamford Bridge and Hastings (1066)

The wanderer

The seafarer

The wife's lament

The husband's message

Wulf

The ruin

Ohthere's voyage to the white sea

Wulfstan's visit to Estonia

Beowulf

King Edwin's council

Caedmon's vision

Cuthbert's death and disinterment

Bede on himself

From Pope Gregory I to Candidus

From Boniface to Fulrad, Abbot of St. Denis

From Cuthbert, Abbot of Wearmouth, to Lul

From Alcuin to Ethelred, King of Northumbria

From Charlemagne to Offa, King of Mercia

From Radbrod, Prior of St Samson's at Dol, to King Æthelstan

Caedmon's hymn

Advent lyrics I, II and VII

The dream of the rood

Durham

Bede's death song

Life of King Alfred (extract)

Preface to St Gregory's Pastoral care

A colloquy

The passion of St Edmund

Thirty-one riddles

A grant of land at Crediton

An estate memorandum : duties and perquisites

A marriage agreement

A manumission

The will of King Alfred

Three charms

Bald's Leechbook (extract)

[Excerpt] from the Phoenix

The panther

The whale

The sermon of the wolf to the English

The fortunes of men.