Old English
Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose
作者：Newton, Cosette Faust, 1889- [Translator]; Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976 [Translator]
体例：题 章数：120
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章节目录
共 120 题- OLD ENGLISH POEMS
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- I. PAGAN POETRY
- II. CHRISTIAN POETRY
- PREFACE
- I. PAGAN POETRY
- 1. EPIC OR HEROIC GROUP
- WIDSITH
- 7. _Hraeda king._ That is, the Gothic king.
- 11. The proverb, or "gnomic verse," is very common in Old English poetry.
- 57. See v. 18, above.
- 61. _Angles._ See vv. 8 and 44, above. _Swaefe._ See line 44, above.
- 65. _Burgundians._ See v. 19.
- 68. The _Rugians_ and the _Glommas_. See note to v. 21, above.
- 75. _Serings:_ possibly Syrians.
- 78. _Welsh:_ a term applied to the Romans by the Old English writers.
- 80. _Lidwicingas:_ the inhabitants of Armorica. _Longobards._ See v. 32.
- 81. The _Hundings_ are also mentioned in line 23.
- 88. _Eormanric._ See note to v. 8, above.
- 93. _Eadgils_ was king of the Myrgings.
- 120. _Hraedas:_ the Goths.
- DEOR'S LAMENT
- 19. _Maerings:_ a name applied to the Ostrogoths.
- WALDHERE
- 1. The speaker is Hildegyth (the Old English form for Hiltgund).
- 3. _Mimming_ was the most famous of the swords made by Weland.
- THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG
- 1. The fragment begins in the middle of a word.
- 26. _Sigferth_, one of the defenders. See v. 17, above.
- 2. GNOMIC GROUP
- CHARMS
- I. For Bewitched Land
- II. Against a Sudden Stitch
- RIDDLES
- I. A Storm
- II. A Storm
- III. A Storm
- V. A Shield
- VII. A Swan
- VIII. A Nightingale
- XIV. A Horn
- 8. Cosijn's reading has been adopted for the first half line.
- XV. A Badger
- XXIII. A Bow
- XXVI. A Bible
- XLV. Dough
- XLVII. A Bookworm
- LX. A Reed
- EXETER GNOMES
- Group II
- THE FATES OF MEN
- 3. ELEGIAC GROUP
- THE WANDERER
- THE SEAFARER
- THE WIFE'S LAMENT
- THE HUSBAND'S MESSAGE
- THE RUIN
- II. CHRISTIAN POETRY
- 1. CAEDMONIAN SCHOOL
- CAEDMON'S HYMN
- BEDE'S DEATH SONG
- SELECTIONS FROM GENESIS
- GENESIS A
- Source: Vulgate Bible; first twenty-two chapters.]
- The Offering of Isaac
- SELECTIONS FROM EXODUS
- The Crossing of the Red Sea
- 354. This refers to God's promise to Abraham. See Genesis 15:18; 22:17.
- 2. CYNEWULF AND HIS SCHOOL
- SELECTIONS FROM THE CHRIST
- 1. Hymn to Christ
- 2. Hymn to Jerusalem
- 2. See Psalms 118:22.
- 3. Joseph and Mary
- 4. Rune Passage
- SELECTIONS FROM THE ELENE
- The poem is usually regarded as Cynewulf's masterpiece.]
- 1. The Vision of the Cross
- 2. The Discovery of the Cross
- THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
- JUDITH
- Translation: _Hall, Judith, Phoenix and Other Anglo-Saxon Poems._
- Source: Apocryphal book of Judith.]
- 1. The Feast
- 2. The Slaying of Holofernes
- 3. The Return to Bethulia
- 4. The Battle
- 5. The Pursuit
- 6. The Spoil
- 7. The Praise
- THE PHOENIX
- I.
- II
- III
- IV
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- THE GRAVE
- It is probably the latest in date of any of the Anglo-Saxon poems.]
- III. POEMS FROM THE CHRONICLE
- THE BATTLE OF BRUNNANBURG
- 31. _Anlaf_: the Old English form of "Olaf."
- 52. _Heirs of Edward_: the English, descendants of Edward the Elder.
- 58. _The Aetheling_: Edmund the Aetheling (or prince) of line 3.
- THE BATTLE OF MALDON
- 5. _Offa's kinsman_ is not named. Offa himself is mentioned in line 286.
- 140. The soldier is Byrhtnoth.
- 151. This refers to Byrhtnoth.
- 271. The two halves of the line rime in the original.
- APPENDIX--SELECTIONS FROM OLD ENGLISH PROSE
- ACCOUNT OF THE POET CAEDMON
- ALFRED'S PREFACE TO HIS TRANSLATION OF GREGORY'S "PASTORAL CARE"
- THE CONVERSION OF EDWIN.
- THE VOYAGES OF OHTHERE AND WULFSTAN
- Ohthere's Voyages
- 100. _Ireland_: Iceland is probably meant.
- Wulfstan's Voyage
- INDEX TO TITLES