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

Here are voices from a thousand years ago, speaking across the centuries in tongues we barely recognize but hearts we understand entirely. This collection gathers the finest surviving poems from the Anglo-Saxon tradition, rendered into English that still hums with the ancient rhythms of the original meter. You will meet the Wanderer who sails alone through winter seas, his heart ice-bound with exile. You will hear Deor's lament, a singer who has lost everything but his craft. And you will encounter The Dream of the Rood, where a wooden cross speaks of crucifixion in language so fierce it burns. These are poems of mead halls and battle-fields, of fate winding like thread around the fingers of Wyrd, of a people caught between pagan darkness and Christian light. They wrote of heroes and their end, of the preciousness of loyalty, the weight of words unspoken. To read them is to stand at the edge of the known world and listen for echoes.