num_pages: 207
description: The essential canon of Old English poetry with parallel verse translation in this now classic edition. A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems such as The Battle of Maldon' The Dream of the Rood The Wanderer and The Seafarer as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments riddles and gnomic verses that survive from the seventh to the twelfth centuries with facing-page verse translations.
language: English
title: A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse
publisher: Faber and Faber