Contents -- Introduction -- Selected Bibliography -- POETRY -- Prosody and Style -- Elegies -- The Wanderer -- The Seafarer -- A Woman's Lament -- Wulf and Eadwacer -- The Husband's Message -- Deor -- The Ruin -- Heroic Poems -- Judith -- Elene -- The Battle of Finnsburh -- The Battle of Brunanburh -- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A.D. 975 -- The Battle of Maldon -- Religious Poems -- Caedmon's Hymn -- Bede's Death Song: A Paraphrase -- The Dream of the Rood -- Christ I: Twelve Advent Lyrics -- Genesis A: Abraham and Isaac -- Genesis B -- The Phoenix -- Wisdom Poetry -- Riddle 1 -- Riddle 2 -- Riddle3 -- Riddle 7 -- Riddle 8 -- Riddle 11 -- Riddle 14 -- Riddle 15 -- Riddle 25 -- Riddle 26 -- Riddle 28 -- Riddle 29 -- Riddle32 -- Riddle33 -- Riddle 44 -- Riddle 45 -- Riddle 47 -- Riddle 57 -- Riddle 60 -- Riddle 66 -- Riddle 87 -- Maxims I -- The Fortunes of Men -- Physiologus -- Charm for Bewitched Land -- PROSE -- Paternoster -- Old English Prose -- Historical Prose -- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- A.D. 449 -- A.D. 754 -- A.D. 755 -- A.D. 793 -- Testamentary and Legal Prose -- Old English Wills -- King Alfred's Will -- Elfgifu's Will -- Ealdorman Elfheah's Will -- Ethelfleda's Will -- Wulfwaru's Will -- Ealdorman Ethelwold's Will -- Old English Laws -- King Alfred's Laws: Excerpts -- Judgment by Ordeal -- King Alfred's Treaty with King Guthrum of Denmark -- Religious Prose -- King Alfred's Preface to Gregory's Dialogues -- Aelfric's Sermon for December 27, on the Assumption of Saint John the Apostle -- Aelfric's Preface to His Translation of Genesis -- Sermo Lupi, the Wolf's Sermon -- The Harrowing of Hell -- Social and Instructional Prose -- Bede: Excerpts from the Old English Translation of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

King Alfred's Preface to a Presentation Copy of a Translation of Saint Gregory the Great's Cura Pastoralis, Pastoral Care, 197 -- King Alfred's Preface to Blossom-Gatherings from Saint Augustine -- Aelfric's Dialogues (Colloquies) -- Medical and Magical Prose -- Eight Charms -- Glossary -- Proposed Solutions to the Riddles.