Dante, and Milton_.

Cook's _The Christ of Cynewulf_. (The _Introduction of 97 pages gives
a valuable account of the life and writings of Cynewulf.)

Kennedy's_ Translation of the Poems of Cynewulf_.

Bede's _Ecclesiastical History of England and the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle_, I vol., translated by Giles in Bohn's _Antiquarian
Library_.

Snell's _The Age of Alfred._

Pauli's _Life of Alfred_ (Bohn's Antiquarian Library).

Gem's _An Anglo-Saxon Abbot: AElfric of Eynsham_.

_Mabinogion_ (a collection of Welsh fairy tales and romances,
_Everyman's Library_), translated by Lady Charlotte Guest.

Pancoast and Spaeth's _Early English Poems_ (abbreviated reference)
("P & S.").

Cook and Tinker's _Select Translations from Old English Poetry_ ("C. &
T.").

Cook & Tinker's _Select Translations from Old English Prose_
("C. & T. _Prose_").

SUGGESTED READINGS WITH QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

The student who is not familiar with the original Anglo-Saxon should
read the translations specified below:--

Scopic Poetry.[33]--_Widsieth_ or the _Far Traveler_, translated in
Morley's _English Writers_, Vol. II, 1-11, or in C. & T.,[34] 3-8.

_The Wanderer_, translated in P. & S., 65-68; C. & T., 50-55; Brooke,
364-367.

_The Seafarer_, translated in P. & S., 68-70; C. & T., 44-49; Morley,
II., 21-26; Brooke, 362, 363.

_The Fortunes of Men_, trans. in P. & S., 79-81; Morley, II., 32-37.

_Battle of Brunanburh_, Tennyson's translation.

What were the chief subjects of the songs of the scop? How do they
reveal the life of the time? Is there any common quality running
through them? What qualities of this verse appear in modern poetry?

Beowulf.--This important poem should be read entire in one of the
following translations:

Child's _Beowulf (Riverside Literature Series)_;

Earle's _The Deeds of Beowulf, Done into Modern Prose_ (Clarendon
Press);

Gummere's _The Oldest English Epic_;

Morris and Wyatt's _The Tale of Beowulf_;

Hall's _Beowulf, Translated into Modern Metres_;

Lumsden's _Beowulf, an Old English Poem, Translated into Modern
Rhymes_ (the most readable poetic translation).

Translations of many of the best parts of _Beowulf_ may be found in
P. & S. 5-29; C. & T., 9-24; Morley, I. 278-310; Brooke 26-73.

Where did the exploits celebrated in the poem take place? Where was
Heorot? What was the probably time of the completion of _Beowulf_?
Describe the hero's three exploits. What an