Old English Reader

Welcome to Old English Reader, a site to support Murray McGillivray's Old English Reader from Broadview Press. The Reader Website is in continuous development; the Reader texts in clickable form are the main element. They are offered here primarily in incomplete form (without textual notes and textual introductions), and are being gradually added to and improved.

Old English Reader Table of Contents

Prose Texts

• Alfred's Preface to Gregory
• Apollonius of Tyre (extract)
• The Story of Cædmon from Bede
• The Story of Cynewulf and Cyneheard (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 754 and 755)
• The Great Army (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 866 to 878)
• Sermo Lupi ad Anglos
• The Story of the Conversion of King Edwin from Bede
• The Voyage of Wulfstan from the Old English Orosius
• The Wonders of the East (extract)

Ælfrician Verse

• Ælfric's Life of Saint Eugenia
• Ælfric's Life of Saint Oswald

Poetic Texts

• The Battle of Maldon
• Beowulf lines 1—1062
• Deor
• The Dream of the Rood
• Exeter Book Riddles 2, 9, 10, 12, 25, 26, 31, 44, 45, 46, 47, and 80.
• The Fortunes of Men
• Judith
• The Husband's Message
• Metrical Charm 1: To Restore Farmland
• Metrical Charm 3: Against a Dwarf (i.e. Ague)
• Metrical Charm 4: To Stop a Stabbing Pain
• Metrical Charm 6: Charms for Successful Pregnancy
• The Seafarer
• The Story of Isaac from Genesis A
• The Wanderer
• The Wife's Lament
• The Whale
• Wulf and Eadwacer