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The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records (ASPR) is a six-volume edition intended at the time of its publication to encompass all known Old English poetry.Despite many subsequent editions of individual poems or collections, it has remained the standard reference work for scholarship in this field.
While Old English epic poetry may bear some resemblance to Ancient Greek epics such as the Iliad and Odyssey, the question of if and how Anglo-Saxon poetry was passed down through an oral tradition remains a subject of debate, and the question for any particular poem unlikely to be answered with perfect certainty.
1.1.3 An Acrostic Poem on folio 21r. 1.1.4 A series of Prayers and Hymns on folios 43r to 87v. ... The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900 ...
The four poems, like a substantial portion of Anglo-Saxon poetry, are sculpted in alliterative verse. All four poems draw upon Latin sources such as homilies and hagiographies (the lives of saints) for their content, and this is to be particularly contrasted to other Old English poems, e.g. Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel , which are drawn directly ...
The late 10th-century or early 11th-century London, British Library, Royal MA 12 c xxiii, folio 83r, showing the beginning of Aldhelm's acrostic preface The Epistola ad Acircium, sive Liber de septenario, et de metris, aenigmatibus ac pedum regulis ('letter to Acircius, or the book on sevens, and on metres, riddles, and the regulation of poetic ...
The poems give a sense of the intellectual sophistication of Anglo-Saxon literary culture. They include numerous saints’ lives , gnomic verses , and wisdom poems , in addition to almost a hundred riddles , numerous smaller heroic poems , and a quantity of elegiac verse.
After this, the poem scholars call Genesis B resumes the story of Adam in the Garden, [4] while also going back to the war on Heaven Genesis A already discussed. [5] Following the material from Genesis B , the poem is a fairly close translation of the Biblical book of Genesis up to and including the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22.13).
Further, the poems provide references to figures from Norse and Anglo-Saxon paganism, the latter included alongside Christian references. A list of rune names is also recorded in the Abecedarium Nordmannicum, a 9th-century manuscript, but whether this can be called a poem or not is a matter of some debate.