page_title: Genesis B
hierarchical_section_title: Genesis B
caption_attribution_description: &#39;The Cædmon Manuscript&#39;: parts of Genesis, Exodus and Daniel in Old English verse, illustrated with Anglo-Saxon drawings, c. A.D. 1000.; 13
context_page_description: Genesis B, also known as The Later Genesis, is a passage of Old English poetry describing the Fall of Satan and the Fall of Man, translated from an Old Saxon poem known as the Old Saxon Genesis. The passage known as Genesis B survives as an interpolation in a much longer Old English poem, the rest of which is known as Genesis A, which gives an otherwise fairly faithful translation of the biblical Book of Genesis. Genesis B comprises lines 235-851 of the whole poem.
  Genesis B and Genesis A survive in the partially illustrated Junius Manuscript. The manuscript is incomplete, having in particular missing pages between pages 22 and 23, meaning that the transition point between Genesis A and Genesis B is lost.
context_section_description: Genesis B, also known as The Later Genesis, is a passage of Old English poetry describing the Fall of Satan and the Fall of Man, translated from an Old Saxon poem known as the Old Saxon Genesis. The passage known as Genesis B survives as an interpolation in a much longer Old English poem, the rest of which is known as Genesis A, which gives an otherwise fairly faithful translation of the biblical Book of Genesis. Genesis B comprises lines 235-851 of the whole poem.
  Genesis B and Genesis A survive in the partially illustrated Junius Manuscript. The manuscript is incomplete, having in particular missing pages (conjectured to be two leaves, or four sides) between pages 22 and 23, meaning that the transition point between Genesis A and Genesis B is lost.
caption: The first folio of Genesis B, depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. With modern lineation and punctuation, the text reads: 
  "ac niotað inc þæs oðres ealles,  forlætað þone ænne beam, 
  wariað inc wið þone wæstm.  Ne wyrð inc wilna gæd." 
  Hnigon þa mid heafdum  heofoncyninge 
  georne togenes  and sædon ealles þanc, 
  lista and þara lara.  He let heo þæt land buan, 
  hwærf him þa to heofenum  halig drihten, 
  stiðferhð cyning.  Stod his handgeweorc 
  somod on sande,  nyston sorga wiht 
  to begrornianne,  butan heo godes willan 
  lengest læsten.  Heo wæron leof gode 
  ðenden heo his halige word  healdan woldon.
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