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). .