Literature of Anglo-Saxon England List

I. Translation and Transmission  Letter of Alexander to Aristotle  Alfred  preface to translation of Augustine's Soliloquies  preface to translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care  Aelfric, Preface to Genesis

II. Historiography and Hagiography  Gildas, De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (selections)  Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum  Nennius, Historia Brittonum (selections)  Peterborough Chronicle  Aelfric, Lives of the Saints (Preface, Edmund, Alban)  Wulfstan, Sermo Lupi ad Anglos

III. Homiletic Material  Vercelli Homilies (Spel to Forman Gangdæge, Spel to Oðrum Gangdæge, Spel to Þriddan Gangdæge, De Sancto Martino Confessore)  Aelfric, Catholic Homilies (Assumptio Sanctae Mariae Virginis (I), Sermo de Sacrificio in Die Pascae (II))  Wulfstan, De Falsis Deis

IV. Poems of the Junius Manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian, MS Junius 11)  Genesis  Exodus  Christ and Satan

V. Poems of the Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Cathedral Library, MS CXVII)  Andreas  Cynewulf, Fates of the Apostles  Dream of the Rood  Cynewulf, Elene

VI. Poems of the Exeter Book (Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS 3501)  Christ  Guthlac  The Phoenix  Cynewulf, Juliana  The Wanderer  The Seafarer  Widsith  The Fortunes of Men  The Riming Poem  The Panther  The Whale  The Partridge  Soul and Body II  Deor  Wulf and Eadwacer  Riddles 1-59 (selections)  The Wife’s Lament  The Husband’s Message  The Ruin  Riddles 61-95 (selections)

VII. Poems of Cotton Vitellius A. xv  Beowulf  Judith

VIII. Additional Poems  Finnsburh Fragment  Waldere  The Battle of Maldon  “The Battle of Brunanburh”  Durham  The Rune Poem  Solomon and Saturn  “Caedmon’s Hymn”  “Bede’s Death Song”

IX. Secondary Reading  Bately, Janet. The Literary Prose of Alfred’s Reign: Translation or Transformation? (1980).  Frantzen, Allen. Desire for Origins (1990).  Greenfield, Stanley. A Critical History of Old English Literature (1965).  Howe, Nicholas. Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England (1989).  O’Keeffe, Katherine O’Brien. Visible Song: Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse (1990).  Orchard, Andy. Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf-Manuscript (1995).