Old English Shorter Poems

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This collection presents twenty-five Old English poems and eleven metrical charms, revealing the Anglo-Saxon worldview. Works like The Wanderer and The Seafarer explore life’s spiritual journey through philosophical reflection. Others, such as The Wife's Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer, express intense emotions of love, loss, and vengeance. The poems offer wisdom born from suffering, exile, and alienation, while charms provide folk remedies for ailments. Additional pieces include the scholarly dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, the rune explanations in The Rune Poem, and the heroic catalog in Widsith. This volume complements the earlier DOML work Old English Shorter Poems, Volume I: Religious and Didactic.
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Ideal for readers interested in Anglo-Saxon literature, medieval poetry, and historical cultural insights.

Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find meaning in the loss of fortune and reputation, exile, and alienation. Wisdom also emerges as folk remedies, such as charms to treat stabbing pain, cysts, childbirth, and nightmares of witch-riding caused by a dwarf.

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The twenty-five poems and eleven metrical charms in this Old English volume offer tantalising insights into the mental landscape of the Anglo-Saxons. The Wanderer and The Seafarer famously combine philosophical consolation with introspection to achieve a spiritual understanding of life as a journey.

The Wife's Lament, The Husband's Message, and Wulf and Eadwacer direct a subjective lyrical intensity on the perennial themes of love, separation, and the passion for vengeance. From suffering comes wisdom, and these poems find meaning in the loss of fortune and reputation, exile, and alienation. "Woe is wondrously clinging; clouds glide," reads a stoic, matter-of-fact observation in Maxims II on nature's indifference to human suffering.

Another form of wisdom emerges in the form of folk remedies, such as charms to treat stabbing pain, cysts, childbirth, and nightmares of witch-riding caused by a dwarf. The enigmatic dialogues of Solomon and Saturn combine scholarly erudition and proverbial wisdom. Learning of all kinds is celebrated, including the meaning of individual runes in The Rune Poem and the catalog of legendary heroes in Widsith.

This book is a welcome complement to the previously published DOML volume Old English Shorter Poems, Volume I: Religious and Didactic.

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674053069

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 April 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Contributors:

Edited and translated by Robert E. Bjork

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 320

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Arts & Culture History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

About the Author

A Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, Robert E. Bjork is Foundation Professor of English and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University.