Leoð: Six Old English Poems

This is an edition of six Anglo-Saxon heroic poems, best read in conjunction with the study of 'Beowulf' (106-013). It contains 'Deor', 'Widsith', 'Waldere', 'The Finnsburh Fragment', 'The Battle of Brunanburh' and 'The Battle of Maldon'.

Reviews

"A teacher of Old English wanting to offer a second-year course in heroic poetry would have to assign at least four books to equal this on anthology …It is a handy, sensible edition." [Donald K. Fry, Speculum, 67 (1992): 730-1.]

"This attractive and useful student handbook includes full scholarly editions of Widsith, Deor, Waldere, Finnsburh, Brunanburh and Maldon …[I]t is innovative in its incorporation in its footnotes of far more literary criticism than is usual and this could make it more palatable to students, and more enlightening too. The focus of the criticism is these poems' relationship with Beowulf, so that it will be essential for students using it to have read that poem; the quality of the notes vindicates the approach…" [Mark Griffith, Medium Aevum, 60.1 (1991): 103-4.]