Introducing Anglo-Saxon literature in an approachable way, this is an indispensable guide for students to a key literary topic.

This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.

Ideal for students, this collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays covers all aspects of Anglo-Saxon literature from 600-1066.

This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with

Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of reading that literature with an eye to hu