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Anglo Saxon Poetic Records

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2034 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1953

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George Philip Krapp

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November 16, 2013
This six volume set is a monumental edition of nearly every Old English poem that is known to exist. The volumes were published between 1931 and 1953 and edited by Krapp and Dobbie. Each volume uses modern punctuation marks and follows a standard format of an introduction, text and then notes with variant manuscript readings given in the footnotes to the texts.

Volume One The Junius Manuscript.
Genesis.
Exodus.
Daniel.
Christ and Satan.

Volume Two The Vercelli Book.
Andreas.
The Fates of the Apostles.
Soul and Body.
Dream of the Rood.
Elene.

Volume Three The Exeter Book.
Christ.
Guthlac.
Azarias.
The Phoenix.
Juliana.
The Wanderer.
The Gifts of Men.
Precepts.
The Seafarer.
Vainglory.
Widsith.
The Fortunes of Men.
Maxims 1.
The Order of the World.
The Riming Poem.
The Panther.
The Whale.
The Partridge.
Soul and Body.
Deor.
Wulf and Eadwacer.
Riddles 1-59
The Wife's Lament.
The Judgment Day 1.
Resignation.
The Descent into Hell.
Alms-Giving.
Pharaoh.
The Lord’s Prayer 1.
Homiletic Fragment 2.
Riddle 30b.
Riddle 60.
The Husband's Message.
The Ruin.
Riddles 61-95.

Volume Four Beowulf and Judith.
Beowulf.
Judith.

Volume Five The Paris Psalter.
Metrical Psalms of The Paris Psalter.
Meters of Boethius.

Volume Six Anglo Saxon Minor Poems.
The Battle of Finnsburh.
Waldere.
The Battle of Maldon.
The Poems of The Anglo Saxon Chronicle.
Durham.
The Rune Poem.
Solomon and Saturn.
The Menologium.
Maxims 2.
A Proverb From Winfrid's Time.
The Judgement Day 2.
An Exhortation to Christian Living.
A Summons to Prayer.
The Lords Prayer 2.
The Gloria 1.
The Lords Prayer 3.
The Creed.
Fragments of Psalms.
The Kentish Hymn.
Psalm 50.
The Gloria 2.
A Prayer.
Thureth.
Aldhelm.
The Seasons For Fasting.
Cædmon's Hymn.
Bede's Death Song.
The Leiden Riddle.
Latin-English Proverbs.
The Metrical Preface To The Pastoral Care.
The Metrical Epilogue to The Pastoral Care.
The Preface to Gregory's Dialogues.
The Metrical Epilogue to MS. 41 Corpus Christi College.
The Ruthwell Cross.
The Brussels Cross.
The Franks Casket.
The Metrical Charms.
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