Old English & Middle English Verse
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight (first and second stanzas)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern English prose translation When the siege and the assault were ended at Troy,The city battered and burnt to brands and ashes,The man that the p...
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern English Prose Translation (lines 1-18):When April with its sweet showersThe drought of March has pierced to the root,And bathed every vein in s...
Linguistic and Social Change and the Unchanging Human Heart (Troilus & Criseyde, Book II, lines 22-28)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Robert Rice reads the Linguistic and Social Change, and the Unchanging Human Heart ( from Troilus & Criseyde, Book II, lines 22-28.)
Pater Noster and Ave Maria (Middle English)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern English Translation: Pater Noster Our Father who art in heaven...
The Battle of Brunanburh (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern English Translation:Here King Ezelstan, lord of men, ring-giver of warriors, and his brother also,Eadmund the Fzeling, everlasting ...
Grendel's Approach (from Beowulf, lines 702b-738)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern English prose translation: Came on dark nightthe shadow-walker striding. The bowmen slept,who were to hold the ga...
The Prologue to Beowulf (lines 1-52)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Robert Rice reads the prologue to Beowulf.
The Dream of the Rood (lines 1-38)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern English prose translation Listen! I intend to tell the choicest of dreams ...
Caedmon's Hymn (Northumbrian version, West Saxon version, Modern English translation)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern English Translation:Now must we praise the kingdom of heaven’s Guardian, Measurer’s might and His mind’...
The Sign of the Cross, Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Gloria Patri (Old English)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern English Translation: The Sign of the Cross In the name of the Father ...
Introduction
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A brief introduction to readings of Old English and Middle English by Dr. Robert Rice.