Codex Exoniensis - The Exeter Book. A Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Authors: Anonymous In Year : 1842

Book Language: English

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To Jesus Christ
To the Virgin Mary
On the Nativity
On the same
To the Trinity
On the Nativity
On the Nativity and Ascension
On the Ascension and the Harrowing of Hell
Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving
Hymn in continuation of the foregoing
Poems on the Day of Judgment, I-III.
On the Crucifixion
On the Day of Judgment, I-II.
On the Crucifixion etc.
Of Souls after Death etc., I-II.
Poem, Moral and Religious
The Legend of St. Guthlac Part 1
The Legend of St. Guthlac Part 2
The Legend of St. Guthlac Part 3
The Story of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah paraphrased
The Phoenix Part 1
The Phoenix Part 2
The Legend of St. Juliana Part 1
The Legend of St. Juliana Part 2
The Wanderer
On the Endowments and Pursuits of Men
A Father’s Instruction to his Son
The Seafarer
Monitory Poem
The Scop or Scald’s Tale
On the Various Fortunes of Men
Gnomic Verses, I-III.
On the Wonders of the Creation
Riming Poem
The Panther
The Whale
A Fragment
A Departed Soul's Address to the Body, I.
A Departed Soul's Address to the Body, II.
Deor the Scald's Complaint
Riddles Part 1
Riddles Part 2
Riddles Part 3
The Exile's Complaint
On the Day of Judgment
A Supplication
On the Resurrection and the Harrowing of Hell
Religious Poem
A Fragment
The Lord’s Prayer paraphrased
Maxims
Riddles
A Fragment
The Ruin
Riddles

The Exeter Book (Codex Exoniensis). This book was presented to his Cathedral by Leofric, the first Bishop of Exeter, about the middle of the 11th century. It is preserved in the Cathedral Library at Exeter; the first leaves are missing, and the last leaves are injured; the handwriting of the MS belongs probably to the first half of the 11th century.

In the catalogue of Leofric’s donations to his cathedral, this volume is entered as 'one great English book on various subjects, composed in verse'.

The Exeter Book is the largest extant manuscript of Old English literature and containing approximately one sixth of the Old English poetry that survives.

The most striking characteristics of Anglo-Saxon Poetry are: inversion of phrase; redundance of metaphor; “parallelism,” or repetition in synonymous terms of the same act or idea. Both rhyme and alliteration are found in Anglo-Saxon Poetry, but rhyme is less generally introduced. The structure of the verse is trochaic; the line is divided into two halves by the Caesura, each half line having two stressed syllables, the, unstressed syllables varying in number; the half lines are associated by alliteration, one stressed syllable at least in each half line beginning with a similar consonant, or vowel. Usually the alliteration falls on the two stressed syllables in the first half line and the first stressed syllable in the second. (Summary by Marian Edwardes and Preface)