During the Old English period writers produced a variety of poems in many different genres, such as secular heroic poems, Old Testament narrative poems, poems about Christian saints, and elegiac poems.
Subcategories 9
Sites 51
- Phoenix Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.
- Andreas Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.
- Judgment Day I Old English text and modern English translation by T.A. Shippey.
- Judgment Day II Old English text and modern English translation by J.R. Lumby.
- Soul and Body I Old English text and modern English translation by T.A. Shippey.
- Waldere Old English text and facing-page translation by Benjamin Slade. Includes introduction and explanatory notes.
- Franks Casket Includes the texts of the Old English verse inscriptions on the casket and translations into modern English.
- Deor Old English text and facing modern English translation by Benjamin Slade. Includes introduction and explanatory notes.
- Wife's Lament Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary. At University of Calgary.
- Battle of Finnsburh Old English text and facing modern English translation by Benjamin Slade. Includes introduction and explanatory notes.
- Christ and Satan Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.
- Phoenix Old English text and modern English translation by S.A.J. Bradley.
- Ruthwell Cross Modern English translation of the Old English poem inscribed in runic characters on the Ruthwell Cross. Includes a video on the Ruthwell Cross.
- Deor Old English text with facing modern English translation and textual notes.
- Waldere Old English text together with the related Latin poem Waltharius.
- Widsith Modern English translation by S.A.J. Bradley.
- Battle of Brunanburh Includes background information, Old English text, and modern English translations. Clicking on any line of the Old English text gives a literal translation of the line.
- Rune Poem Modern English translation by Bruce Dickins, with pictures of each rune. Site also contains modern English translations of rune poems in other ancient Germanic languages.
- Wife's Lament Modern English translation by Roy Liuzza.
- Wulf and Eadwacer Modern English translation by Jonathan Glenn,
- Battle of Finnsburh Modern English translation of this poem and the Finn episode in Beowulf. Includes background information.
- Husband's Message Modern English translation. From Early English Poems Selected and Edited by Henry S. Pancoast and John Duncan Spaeth.
- Rune Poem Old English text with modern English translation. Includes pictures of the runes.
- Battle of Brunanburh Resource Site Includes Old English text, modern English translation, and resources for study of the poem and battle. Provides modern English translations of relevant texts.
- Ruin Modern English translation by Michael Alexander.
- Widsith Modern English translation by Bella Millet.
- Wulf and Eadwacer Old English text with modern English definition of each word.
- Panther Albert S. Cook's edition of the three poems that make up the Old English bestiary: Panther, Whale, and Partridge. Includes introduction, parallel modern English verse translations by James H. Pittman, prose translations by Cook, and brief footnotes. Project Gutenberg eBook.
- Fortunes of Men Each word of the Old English text is hot-linked to a corresponding glossary entry.
- Whale Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
- Deor Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
- Husband's Message Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
- Wulf and Eadwacer Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.
- Meters of Boethius Modern English translation by Walter Sedgefield.
- Husband's Message Modern English translation. From the Anglo-Saxon Foundation.
- Riming Poem Modern English translation. Includes analysis and interpretation of the poem.
- Ruin Old English text with facing modern English translation by Sian Echard,
- Andreas Modern English translation by Robert K. Root. Includes introduction and notes. Project Gutenberg e-book.
- Brussels Cross Old English text with modern English translation.
- Battle of Brunanburh Modern English translation by John Osborne.
- Deor Modern English translation by Steve Pollington. Includes a sound recording of the Old English text.
- Meters of Boethius Modern English translation by Aaron Hostetter.
- Durham Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.
- Panther Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Louis Rodrigues.
- Ruin Old English text with facing modern English translation by Richard Hamer.
- Wife's Lament Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Richard Hamer.
- Wulf and Eadwacer Old English text with parallel modern English translation by Richard Hamer.
- Durham Old English text with parallel modern English translation by David Lisle Crane.
- Fortunes of Men Modern English translation by Stith Thompson and Cosette Faust.
- Waldere Modern English translation by Stith Thomson and Cosette Faust.
- Menologium Modern English translation.