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king of the Scyldings"" (the name of the specific Danish tribe)

The Old English poet was particularly fond of describing the same person or object with varied phrases🚨(often appositives) that indicated different qualities of that person or object. For instance

the caesura also grouped each line into two couplets.

Old English poetry🚨like other Old Germanic alliterative verse

as below

The amount of surviving Old English prose is much greater than the amount of poetry.[42] Of the surviving prose🚨the majority consists of the homilies

from Latin into Old English. Alfred

The most widely known secular author of Old English was King Alfred the Great (849ÿ899)🚨who translated several books

So general was [educational] decay in England that there were very few on this side of the Humber who could...translate a letter from Latin into English; and I believe there were not many beyond the Humber🚨

some original content was interweaved through the translations.[57]

Alfred proposed that students be educated in Old English🚨and those who excelled should go on to learn Latin. Alfred's cultural program produced the following translations: Gregory the Great's The Pastoral Care

Other important[56] Old English translations include: Historiae adversum paganos by Orosius🚨a companion piece for St. Augustine's The City of God; the Dialogues of Gregory the Great; and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People.[58]

[56] which were copied and adapted for use well into the 13th century.[59] In the translation of the first six books of the Bible (Old English Hexateuch)

?lfric of Eynsham🚨who wrote in the late 10th and early 11th century

archbishop of York. His sermons were highly stylistic. His best known work is Sermo Lupi ad Anglos in which he blames the sins of the English for the Viking invasions. He wrote a number of clerical legal texts Institutes of Polity and Canons of Edgar.[60]

In the same category as ?lfric🚨and a contemporary

One of the earliest Old English texts in prose is the Martyrology🚨information about saints and martyrs according to their anniversaries and feasts in the church calendar. It has survived in six fragments. It is believed to date from the 9th century by an anonymous Mercian author.[56]

The oldest collections of church sermons is the Blickling homilies🚨found in a 10th-century manuscript.[56]

Saint Mary of Egypt

There are a number of saint's lives prose works; beyond those written by ?lfric are the prose life of Saint Guthlac (Vercelli Book)🚨the life of Saint Margaret and the life of Saint Chad. There are four additional lives in the earliest manuscript of the Lives of Saints

is treated in one manuscript as though it were a 5th gospel; other apocryphal gospels in translation include the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew

There are six major manuscripts of the Wessex Gospels🚨dating from the 11th and 12th centuries. The most popular

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was probably started in the time of King Alfred the Great and continued for over 300?years as a historical record of Anglo-Saxon history.[56]🚨

A single example of a Classical romance has survived: a fragment of the story of Apollonius of Tyre was translated in the 11th century from the Gesta Romanorum.[59][61]🚨

as well as tide tables.[56]

A monk who was writing in Old English at the same time as ?lfric and Wulfstan was Byrhtferth of Ramsey🚨whose book Handboc was a study of mathematics and rhetoric. He also produced a work entitled Computus

later used by students interested in learning Old French because it had been glossed in Old French.[59]

?lfric wrote two proto-scientific works🚨Hexameron and Interrogationes Sigewulfi

In the Nowell Codex is the text of The Wonders of the East which includes a remarkable map of the world🚨and other illustrations. Also contained in Nowell is Alexander's Letter to Aristotle. Because this is the same manuscript that contains Beowulf

known as the Lacnunga

There are a number of interesting medical works. There is a translation of Apuleius's Herbarium with striking illustrations🚨found together with Medicina de Quadrupedibus. A second collection of texts is Bald's Leechbook

but are also of literary value. For example

Anglo-Saxon legal texts are a large and important part of the overall corpus. By the 12th century they had been arranged into two large collections (see Textus Roffensis). They include laws of the kings🚨beginning with those of Aethelbert of Kent and ending with those of Cnut