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Title: Old English Poems
Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose

Author: Various

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Language: English

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OLD ENGLISH POEMS

Translated into the Original Meter
Together with
Short Selections from Old English Prose

by

COSETTE FAUST, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English in the Southern Methodist University

and

STITH THOMPSON, Ph.D.
Instructor in English in The University of Texas

Scott, Foresman and Company
Chicago New York

Copyright, 1918
By Scott, Foresman and Company

Robert O. Law Company
Edition Book Manufacturers
Chicago, U.S.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. PAGAN POETRY

1. EPIC OR HEROIC GROUP
PAGE
Widsith 15
Deor's Lament 26
Waldhere 29
The Fight at Finnsburg 34

2. GNOMIC GROUP
Charms
1. Charm for Bewitched Land 38
2. Charm for a Sudden Stitch 42
Riddles
1. A Storm 44
2. A Storm