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| Preface | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The writing and pronunciation of Old English | |
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| Teaching and learning | |
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| In the Schoolroom (from AElfric's Colloquy) | |
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| A Personal Miscellany (from AElfwine's Prayerbook) | |
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| A Divinatory Alphabet | |
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| The Moon and Tide | |
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| The Age of the Virgin | |
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| Medicinal Remedies (from Bald's Leechbook) | |
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| For Dimness of the Eyes | |
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| For Vomiting | |
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| For Dysentery | |
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| Learning Latin (from AElfric's Excerptiones de arte grammatica anglice) | |
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| A New Beginning (Alfred's preface to his translation of Gregory's Cura pastoralis) | |
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| The Wagonwheel of Fate (from Alfred's translation of Boethius's De consolatione Philosophiae) | |
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| Keeping a record | |
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| Laws of the Anglo-Saxon Kings | |
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| AEthelberht of Kent (c. 614) | |
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| Alfred of Wessex (c. 890) | |
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| AEthelred of England (1014) | |
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| England under Attack (from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: annals for 981-93, 995-8 and 1002-3) | |
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| Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People | |
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| The Founding of England | |
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| The Miracle of Caedmon | |
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| The Battle of Brunanburh | |
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| The Will of AElfgifu | |
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| The Fonthill Letter | |
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| Spreading the Word | |
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| After the Flood (from the Old English Hexateuch: Gen 8.6-18 and 9.8-13) | |
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| The Crucifixion (from the Old English Gospels: Mt 27.11-54) | |
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| King Alfred's Psalms | |
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| Psalm 1 | |
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| Psalm 12 | |
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| Psalm 22 | |
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| A Translator's Problems (AElfric's preface to his translation of Genesis) | |
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| Satan's Challenge (Genesis B, lines 338-441) | |
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| The Drowning of Pharaoh's Army (Exodus, lines 447-564) | |
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| Judith | |
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| Example and Exhortation | |
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| Bede's Death Song | |
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| Northumbrian version | |
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| West-Saxon version | |
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| Two Holy Women | |
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| Saint AEthelthryth (from AElfric's Lives of Saints) | |
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| Saint Eugenia (from the Old English Martyrology) | |
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| A Homily for Easter Sunday (from AElfric's Sermones catholicae) | |
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| The Dream of the Rood | |
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| On False Gods (Wulfstan's De falsis deis) | |
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| The Sermon of the Wolf (Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi) | |
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| The Seafarer | |
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| Telling Tales | |
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| Falling in Love (from Apollonius of Tyre) | |
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| The Trees of the Sun and the Moon (from The Letter of Alexander) | |
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| Cynewulf and Cyneheard (from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: annal for 755) | |
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| The Battle of Maldon | |
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| Beowulf | |
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| The Tragedy of Hildeburh (Beowulf, lines 1063-1159) | |
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| The Slaying of Grendel's Mother (Beowulf, lines 1492-1590) | |
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| The Fight at Finnsburh | |
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| Reflection and lament | |
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| Truth is Trickiest (Maxims II) | |
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| The Durham Proverbs | |
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| Five Anglo-Saxon Riddles | |
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| 'Shield' | |
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| 'Swan' | |
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| 'Onion' | |
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| 'Bible' | |
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| 'Bookworm' | |
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| Deor | |
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| The Ruin | |
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| The Wanderer | |
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| Wulf and Eadwacer | |
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| The Wife's Lament | |
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| Manuscripts and textual emendations | |
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| Reference Grammar of Old English | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| The use of the cases | |
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| Numerals | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Useful Old English | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Guide to terms | |
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| Index | |