There are four original manuscripts containing poetry in Old English—the now-defunct language of the medieval Anglo-Saxons—that have survived to the present day. No more, no less. They are: the ...

Hefty and easy to like, fit at once for the classroom and the kitchen table, this anthology is a rare beast, a commercial opportunity that also fulfills a real literary need. Most of the corpus of ...

Hwæt. That word, barking through the clatter of the mead hall, typically opened an Old English poem in the Dark Ages, and roughly translates to “What” or “Listen now.” Old English is largely Germanic, ...

Bird-Shaped Brooch, 500–550 C.E., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917, 17.191.74. Public domain. Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center is a scholarly ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information JEGP focuses on Northern European cultures of the Middle Ages, covering Medieval English, Germanic, and Celtic Studies. The word ...