Old English Literature


1. General Bibliographies and Reference Sources

Bonser, W., An Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Bibliography, 450-1087, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1957).

Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: a Register of Written Sources Used by Authors in Anglo-Saxon England.
This is a database, currently in process of construction, which records what is known of the source texts of Anglo-Saxon writings.
Web: http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/fellows/orchard/fontes/index.html

Greenfield, Stanley B. and Fred C. Robinson, A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature from the Beginnings to the End of 1972 (Toronto, 1980).

Lapidge, Michael, Abbreviations for Sources and Specification of Standard Editions for Sources, Compiled for 'Fontes Anglo-Saxonici' and 'Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture' (Binghamton, N.Y., 1988).
A system of standardisation of abbreviations denoting Latin texts known to the Anglo-Saxons. Such texts often influenced and/or inspired texts in Old English. The scheme has been devised to be used in Fontes and SASLC, two projects currently in progress. See Fontes, and SASLC.

Lester, Geoffrey, Handbook of Teachers of Medieval English Language and Literature in Great Britain and Ireland, revised edition (Sheffield, 1992).
The web edition also dates to 1992.
Web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/D-H/ell/text/handbook.htm

Marples, N.J. and O.D. Macrae-Gibson, A Critical Discography of Readings in Old English (Kalamazoo, 1988).

Mitchell, Bruce, Christopher Ball, and Angus Cameron, 'Short Titles of Old English Texts', Anglo-Saxon England 4 (1975), 207-21.
It is often convenient to use internationally recognised short titles for OE texts. See Section One, part 1 for the published updates to this list.

Ogilvy, J.D.A., Books Known to the English, 597-1066 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967).
See Ogilvy (1985) and the note at SASLC below.

Ogilvy, J.D.A., Books Known to the English, 597-1066: Addenda et Corrigenda (Binghamton, N.Y., 1985).
See Ogilvy (1967) and the note at SASLC below.

'Old English Literature', Year's Work in English Studies.
An annual report in the journal YWES.

Pulsiano, P., An Annotated Bibliography of North American Doctoral Dissertations on Old English Language and Literature (Woodbridge, 1988).

SASLC: Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture [web-site].
This is a project to publish a record of those Classical, Patristic and Medieval texts which appear to have been known in Anglo-Saxon England, judging from their influence on Anglo-Saxon writings. The project is gradually superseding Ogilvy above.
Web: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/saslc/index.html

TOEBI: Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland [web-site].
Includes a useful collection of teaching resources.
Web: http://info.ox.ac.uk/departments/humanities/toebi/

Watson, George, ed., The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. 1: 600-1660 (Cambridge, 1974).

2. General Commentaries

Amos, Ashley Crandell, Linguistic Means of Determining the Dates of Old English Literary Texts (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980).

Brown, Phyllis Rugg, Georgia Ronan Crampton, and Fred C. Robinson, ed., Modes of Interpretation in Old English Literature: Essays in Honour of Stanley B. Greenfield (Toronto, 1986).

Burlin, Robert B. and Edward B. Irving, ed., Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope (Toronto, 1974).

Gatch, Milton McC., Loyalties and Traditions: Man and his World in Old English Literature (New York, 1971).

Godden, Malcolm and Michael Lapidge, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (Cambridge, 1991).

Greenfield, Stanley B. and Daniel G. Calder, A New Critical History of Old English Literature (London, 1986).

Gruber, Loren C. and Dean Loganbill, ed., In Geardagum: Essays on Old English Language and Literature (Denver, 1974).

Korhammer, Michael, ed., Words, Texts, and Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Helmut Gneuss on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Woodbridge, 1992).

Lapidge, M., Textual Criticism and the Literature of Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester, 1991).

Lapidge, M. and H. Gneuss, ed., Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge, 1985).

Mitchell, Bruce, On Old English: Selected Papers (Oxford, 1988).

O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien, ed., Reading Old English Texts (Cambridge, 1997).

Pollington, Stephen, An Introduction to the Old English Language and its Literature, second edition (Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1996).
A handy outline of the main elements of the language and its literature, which provides a helpful introduction to the subject for any reader.

Robinson, Fred C., The Editing of Old English (Oxford, 1994).

Scragg, D.G. and Paul E. Szarmach, ed., The Editing of Old English: Papers from the 1990 Manchester Conference (Cambridge, 1994).

Sisam, Kenneth, Studies in the History of Old English Literature (Oxford, 1953).

Stanley, Eric Gerald, A Collection of Papers with Emphasis on Old English Literature (Toronto, 1987).

Stanley, Eric Gerald, In the Foreground: Beowulf (Woodbridge, 1993).
A survey of the critical writing of the last three centuries on OE literature.

Stevens, M. and J. Mandel, ed., Old English Literature: Twenty-Two Analytical Essays (Lincoln, Nebraska, 1968).

Wrenn, C.L., A Study of Old English Literature (London, 1967).

3. General Topics


a) Foreign Relations and Influences

Wright, Charles D., ed., The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature (Cambridge, 1993).

b) Mythology and Legend

Davis, Craig R., Beowulf and the Demise of Germanic Legend in England (London, 1996).

Howe, Nicholas, Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England (London, 1989).

Linsell, Tony, Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Migration and Magic (Pinner, 1994).

Orchard, Andy, Cassell Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend (London, 1997).
This books covers the mythology of all the Germanic peoples.


c) Orality and Literacy

Brown, George Hardin, The Dynamics of Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester, 1996).

Cross, J.E., The Literate Anglo-Saxon: On Sources and Disseminations (London, 1972).

Lerer, S., Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature (London, 1991).

d) Religion (Christianity)

Raw, Barbara C., Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought (Cambridge, 1997).

e) Religion (Paganism)

Griffiths, Bill, Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Magic (Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1996).

North, Richard, Heathen Gods in Old English Literature (Cambridge, 1997).

f) Women

Chance, Jane, Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (Syracuse, 1986).

Damico, Helen and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen, ed., New Readings on Women in Old English Literature (Bloomington, 1990).

4. General Collections

Griffiths, Bill, An Anglo-Saxon Subject Reader, Part One: the Natural World (London, 1990).

Griffiths, Bill, Saxon Voices: Old English Readings (London, 1996) [audio cassette].

Pollington, Stephen, Ærgeweorc: Old English Verse and Prose (Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1997) [audio cassette].

Quirk, Randolph, Valerie Adams, and Derek Davy, Old English Literature: a Practical Introduction (London, 1975).
Selected readings from poetry and prose, with detailed notes on linguistic points.

Sedgefield, W.J., An Anglo-Saxon Book of Verse and Prose (Manchester, 1928).

Sweet, H., ed., An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Verse and Prose, fifteenth edition (Oxford, 1967).

Sweet, H., ed., A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader, Archaic and Dialectal, second edition (Oxford, 1978).

5. Poetry


a) Bibliographies and Reference Sources

Bibliographies and reference sources for individual poems can be found in part e below.
Allen, Michael J.B. and Daniel G. Calder, Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry: the Major Latin Texts in Translation (Cambridge, 1976).

Bergman, Madeleine M., 'Supplement to 'A Concordance to the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records'', Mediaevalia 8 (1982), p. 9-52.
A supplement to Bessinger (1978).

Bessinger, J.B., ed., A Concordance to 'The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records' (Ithaca, 1978).
See also Bergman .

Bessinger, J.B., A Short Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in a Normalized Early West Saxon Orthography (Toronto, 1960).

Calder, Daniel G. et al., Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry: the Major Germanic and Celtic Texts in Translation (Cambridge, 1983).

Madden, J.F. and F.P. Magoun, Grouped Frequency Word-List of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964).

Muir, Bernard James, The Exeter Book: a Bibliography (Exeter, 1992).

Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey, 'Oral-Formulaic Research in Old English Studies, I', Oral Tradition 1 (1986), 548-606.

Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey, 'Oral-Formulaic Research in Old English Studies, II', Oral Tradition 3: 1-2 (1988), 138-90.

b) Commentaries

Aertsen, Henk and Rolf H. Bremmer, ed., Companion to Old English Poetry (Amsterdam, 1994).

Bammesberger, Alfred, Linguistic Notes on Old English Poetic Texts (Heidelberg, 1986).

Bjork, Robert E., The Old English Verse Saints' Lives: a Study in Direct Discourse and the Iconography of Style (Toronto, 1985).

Calder, Daniel G., ed., Old English Poetry: Essays on Style (Berkeley, 1979).

Clemoes, Peter, Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry (Cambridge, 1995).

Creed, Robert, ed., Old English Poetry: Fifteen Essays (Providence, 1967).

Green, Martin, ed., The Old English Elegies: New Essays in Criticism and Research (Rutherford, 1983).

Greenfield, Stanley B., The Interpretation of Old English Poems (London, 1972).

Greenfield, Stanley B., Hero and Exile: the Art of Old English Poetry, ed. by George H. Brown (London, 1989).

Hansen, Elaine Tuttle, The Solomon Complex: Reading Wisdom in Old English Poetry (Toronto, 1988).

Head, Pauline E., Representation and Design: Tracing a Hermeneutics of Old English Poetry (Albany, 1997).

Howe, Nicholas, The Old English Catalogue Poems (Copenhagen, 1985).

Mandel, Jerome, Alternative Readings in Old English Poetry (New York, 1987).

Momma, H., The Composition of Old English Poetry (Cambridge, 1997).

Nicholson, Lewis E. and Dolores Warwick Frese, ed., Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in Appreciation (Notre Dame, 1975).

O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien, Old English Shorter Poems: Basic Readings (London, 1994).

Pasternack, Carol Braun, The Textuality of Old English Poetry (Cambridge, 1995).

Raw, Barbara C., The Art and Background of Old English Poetry (London, 1978).

Shippey, T.A., Old English Verse (London, 1972).

Zimmermann, Gunhild, The Four Old English Poetic Manuscripts: Texts, Contexts and Historical Background (Heidelberg, 1995).

c) Topics


i) Cynewulf

Anderson, Earl R., Cynewulf: Structure, Style, and Theme in his Poetry (Rutherford, 1983).

Bjork, Robert E., ed., Cynewulf: Basic Readings (London, 1996).

Calder, Daniel G., Cynewulf (Boston, 1981).

Wine, Joseph D., Figurative Language in Cynewulf: Defining Aspects of a Poetry Style (New York, 1993).

ii) Foreign Relations and Influences

Schrader, Richard P., Old English Poetry and the Genealogy of Events (East Lansing, Michigan, 1993).
Discusses the influence of the historical writings of Orosius on OE poetry.

iii) Heroism

Damico, Helen and John Leyerle, ed., Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger Jr. (Kalamazoo, 1993).

Cherniss, Michael D., Ingeld and Christ: Heroic Concepts and Values in Old English Poetry (The Hague, 1972).

iv) Metre

Bliss, A.J., An Introduction to Old English Metre (Oxford, 1962).

Fulk, R.D., A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia, 1992).

Hutcheson, B.R., Old English Poetic Metre (Cambridge, 1995).

Russom, Geoffrey, Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory (Cambridge, 1987).

Whitman, F.H., A Comparative Study of Old English Metre (Toronto, 1993).

v) Orality and Literacy

Bragg, Lois, The Lyric Speakers of Old English Poetry (London, 1991).

Davis, Craig R., Beowulf and the Demise of Germanic Legend in England (London, 1996).

Frank, Roberta, The Search for the Anglo-Saxon Oral Poet (Manchester, 1993).

O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien, Visible Song: Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse (Cambridge, 1990).

Opland, Jeff, Anglo-Saxon Oral Poetry: a Study of the Traditions (New Haven, 1980).

vi) Religion (Christianity)

Garde, Judith N., Old English Poetry in Medieval Christian Perspective (Woodbridge, 1991).

Gardner, John, The Construction of Christian Poetry in Old English (Carbondale, 1975).

Wilson, James H., Christian Theology and Old English Poetry (The Hague, 1974).

vii) Religion (Paganism)

Glosecki, Stephen O., Shamanism and Old English Poetry (London, 1989).

viii) Society

Gardiner-Stallaert, Nicole, From the Sword to the Pen: an Analysis of the Concept of Loyalty in Old English Secular Heroic Poetry (New York, 1988).

Magennis, Hugh, Images of Community in Old English Poetry (Cambridge, 1996).

Surber-Meyer, Nida Louise, Gift and Exchange in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Corpus: a Contribution towards the Representation of Wealth (Geneva, 1994).

ix) War

Hermann, John P., Allegories of War: Language and Violence in Old English Poetry (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1990).

d) Collections

Allen, Rosamund, Old English Elegies and Riddles (Provo, Utah, 1990). [audio cassette].

Bradley, S.A.J., Anglo-Saxon Poetry: an Anthology of Old English Poems in Prose Translation (London, 1982).
See notes at Krapp and Dobbie.

Hamer, R.F.S., Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse: Parallel Text (London, 1970).

Hill, Joyce, ed., Old English Minor Heroic Poems (Durham, 1983).

Klinck, Anne L., The Old English Elegies: a Critical Edition and Genre Study (London, 1992).

Krapp, G.P. and Dobbie, E.V.K., ed., The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records: a Collective Edition, 6 vols. (New York, 1931-53).
These volumes include the texts of virtually all known OE poems, but without translations. Bradley is recommended as a large collection of translations in a single volume.
For accessing this material on the web, see Oxford Text Archive and Macrae-Gibson.

Muir, Bernard J., ed., The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: an Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501 (Exeter, 1994).
A new edition of the poems of the Exeter Book.

Oxford Text Archive and O.D. Macrae-Gibson, Labyrinth Library: Old English Literature: Poetry [web-site].
This web-site holds the same material as appears in print in Krapp and Dobbie. Web: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html

Rodrigues, Louis J., trans., Anglo-Saxon Didactic Verse (Felinfach, 1995).

Rodrigues, Louis J., trans., Anglo-Saxon Elegiac Verse (Lampeter, 1994).

Rodrigues, Louis J., Anglo-Saxon Verse Charms, Maxims and Heroic Legends (Lampeter, 1993).

Rodrigues, Louis J., Anglo-Saxon Verse Runes (Lampeter, 1992).

Rodrigues, Louis J., trans., Seven Anglo-Saxon Elegies from the Exeter Book (Felinfach, 1991).

e) Individual Poems

The items listed below do not represent a complete list of known OE poems. Such a list can be found in Cameron, or in Bradley, p. 553-9. See Bradley also for a collection of translations, although further translations are listed below with the individual poems.


i) Andreas

Boenig, Robert, The Acts of Andrew in the Country of the Cannibals: Translations from the Greek, Latin and Old English (London, 1991).

Boenig, Robert, Saint and Hero: Andreas and Medieval Doctrine (London, 1991).

Brooks, K.R., ed., Andreas and The Fates of the Apostles (Oxford, 1961).

ii) Azarias

Farrell, R.T., ed., Daniel and Azarias (London, 1974).

iii) The Battle of Brunanburh

Campbell, Alistair, ed., The Battle of Brunanburh (London, 1938).

Muir, Bernard J., ed., Leoð: Six Old English Poems: a Handbook (New York, 1989).

Rodrigues, Louis J., trans., Three Anglo-Saxon Battle Poems (Felinfach, 1996).

iv) The Battle of Finnsburh

Fry, Donald K., Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburh: a Bibliography (Charlottesville, 1969).

Fry, Donald K., ed., The Finnsburh Fragment and Episode (London, 1974).

Muir, Bernard J., ed., Leoð: Six Old English Poems: a Handbook (New York, 1989).

Rodrigues, Louis J., trans., Three Anglo-Saxon Battle Poems (Felinfach, 1996).

Tolkien, J.R.R., ed. and trans., Finn and Hengest: the Fragment and the Episode, ed. by A.J. Bliss (London, 1982).

Wrenn, C.L. and W.F. Bolton, ed., Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment, revised edition (Exeter, 1988).

v) The Battle of Maldon

Andersen, Hans Erik, The Battle of Maldon: the Meaning, Dating, and Historicity of an Old English Poem (Copenhagen, 1991).

Collier, Wendy E.J., 'A Bibliography of the Battle of Maldon', The Battle of Maldon, A.D. 991, ed. by D.G. Scragg (Oxford, 1991), p. 294-301.
Web: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/rawl/maldon/index.html

Griffiths, Bill, ed. and trans., The Battle of Maldon: Text and Translation (Pinner, 1991).

Muir, Bernard J., ed., Leoð: Six Old English Poems: a Handbook (New York, 1989).

Rodrigues, Louis J., trans., Three Anglo-Saxon Battle Poems (Felinfach, 1996).

Scragg, D.G., ed., The Battle of Maldon (Manchester, 1981).

Scragg, D.G., ed., The Battle of Maldon, A.D. 991 (Oxford, 1991).

vi) Bede's Death Song

Smith, A.H., ed., Three Northumbrian Poems, revised edition (Exeter, 1978).

vii) Beowulf

Baker, Peter S., ed., Beowulf: Basic Readings (New York, 1992).

Bessinger, J.B. and Philip H. Smith, A Concordance to Beowulf (New York, 1969).

Bjork, Robert E. and John D. Niles, ed., A Beowulf Handbook (Exeter, 1997).
Contains discussions of past and present scholarly opinion on various topics.

Bliss, A.J., The Metre of Beowulf, revised edition (Oxford, 1967) Reprinted (Philadelphia, 1980).

British Library, Kevin Kiernan and Paul Szarmach, Electronic Beowulf [web-site].
Web: http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/BL/kportico.html

Chambers, R.W. and C.L. Wrenn, Beowulf: an Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Finn and Offa, third edition (Cambridge, 1959).

Chase, Colin, ed., The Dating of Beowulf (Toronto, 1981).

Clark, George, Beowulf (Boston, 1990).
An introduction to the poem, including discussion of earlier research.

Clark Hall, John R., Beowulf: a Metrical Translation into Modern English (Cambridge, 1914).

Conner, Patrick W., The Beowulf Workstation [computer software].
For technical details and supply, contact:
	Prof. P.W. Conner,
	231 Stansbury Hall,
	Department of English,
	West Virginia University,
	Morgantown,
	WV 25606,
	U.S.A.

Davis, Craig R., Beowulf and the Demise of Germanic Legend in England (London, 1996).

Earl, James W., Thinking about Beowulf (Stanford, 1994).
This work applies contemporary critical theory to the poem.

Fulk, R.D., Interpretations of Beowulf: a Critical Anthology (Bloomington, 1991).

Glover, Julian, Beowulf [video cassette].

Hasenfratz, Robert J., Beowulf Bibliography, 1979-1994 [web-site].
This is the web version, regularly updated, of Hasenfratz.
Web: http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/Medieval/beowulf.html

Hasenfratz, Robert J., Beowulf Scholarship: an Annotated Bibliography, 1979-1990 (New York, 1993).
For the web version, see Hasenfratz. Preceded by Short.

Hill, John M., The Cultural World in Beowulf (London, 1995).
This work presents a consideration of the poem from an anthropological viewpoint.

Irving, Edward B., A Reading of Beowulf (New Haven, Connecticut, 1968).

Jack, George, ed., Beowulf: a Student Edition (Oxford, 1994).
See notes at Klaeber.

Kendall, Calvin B., The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf (Cambridge, 1991).

Klaeber, F., ed., Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, third edition with supplements (Boston, 1950).
This is the most detailed edition of the poem. Jack or Wrenn and Bolton are more suitable for beginners.

Kubouchi, Tadao, ed., Key-Word Studies in Beowulf (Tokyo, 1994).

Magnusson, Magnus et al., Beowulf [audio-cassette].

Malone, Kemp, The Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf (Copenhagen, 1951).
Facsimiles of the transcripts made from the unique manuscript of Beowulf before it was damaged by fire in 1731.

Meaney, Audrey L., Scyld Scefing and the Dating of Beowulf - Again (Manchester, 1989).

Newton, Sam, The Origins of Beowulf and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia (Woodbridge, 1993).

Nicholson, Lewis E., ed., An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism (Notre Dame, 1963).

Ogilvy, J.D.A. and Donald C. Baker, Reading Beowulf: an Introduction to the Poem, its Background and Style (Norman, Oklahoma, 1987).

Osborn, Marijane, Beowulf: a Guide to Study (Los Angeles, 1986).

Porter, John, ed. and trans., Beowulf (Pinner, 1993).
A literal translation opposite the original text as an aid to understanding the language.

Short, Douglas D., Beowulf Scholarship: an Annotated Bibliography (London, 1980).
Continued by Hasenfratz.

Suzuki, Seiichi, The Metrical Organization of Beowulf: Prototype and Isomorphism (New York, 1996).

Tinker, Chauncey B., The Translations of Beowulf: a Critical Bibliography (New Haven, Connecticut, 1903) Reprinted (Hamden, Connecticut, 1974).

Vickman, Jeffrey, A Metrical Concordance to Beowulf (Binghamton, N.Y., 1990).

Wrenn, C.L. and W.F. Bolton, ed., Beowulf with the Finnsburg Fragment, revised edition (Exeter, 1988).
See notes at Klaeber.

Wright, David, trans., Beowulf (Harmondsworth, 1957).

viii) Cædmon's Hymn

Cavill, Paul and Suzanne Wright, Cædmon's Hymn [computer software].
For technical details and supply, contact:
	The Department of English Studies,
	University of Nottingham,
	University Park,
	Nottingham
	NG7 2RD
	UK

Smith, A.H., ed., Three Northumbrian Poems, revised edition (Exeter, 1978).

ix) Charms

Grattan, J.H.G. and Charles Singer, Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine Illustrated Specially from the Semi-Pagan Text 'Lacnunga' (London, 1952) Reprinted (Philadelphia, 1978).

Rodrigues, Louis J., Anglo-Saxon Verse Charms, Maxims and Heroic Legends (Lampeter, 1993).

Storms, G., Anglo-Saxon Magic (The Hague, 1948).

x) Christ (I, II, and III)

Biggs, Frederick M., The Sources of Christ III: a Revision of Cook's Notes (Binghamton, N.Y., 1986).
See also Cook.

Burlin, Robert B., The Old English Advent: a Typological Commentary (New Haven, Connecticut, 1968).

Cook, Albert S., ed., The Christ of Cynewulf: a Poem in Three Parts: the Advent, the Ascension, and the Last Judgement, second edition (Boston, 1909) Reprinted (Hamden, Connecticut, 1964).
It is now generally believed that Cynewulf wrote only Christ II. See also Biggs.

xi) Christ and Satan

Clubb, Merrel Dare, ed., Christ and Satan: an Old English Poem (New Haven, Connecticut, 1925).

Finnegan, Robert E., ed., Christ and Satan: a Critical Edition (Waterloo, Ontario, 1977).

Sleeth, Charles R., Studies in Christ and Satan (Toronto, 1982).

xii) Daniel

Farrell, R.T., ed., Daniel and Azarias (London, 1974).

Remley, Paul G., Old English Biblical Verse: Studies in Genesis, Exodus and Daniel (Cambridge, 1996).

xiii) Deor

Malone, Kemp, ed., Deor, revised edition (Exeter, 1977).

Muir, Bernard J., ed., Leoð: Six Old English Poems: a Handbook (New York, 1989).

xiv) Dream of the Rood

Brooks, Harold F., trans., The Dream of the Rood (Dublin, 1942).

Dickins, Bruce and Alan S.C. Ross, ed., The Dream of the Rood, fourth edition with corrections (London, 1963).

Swanton, Michael, ed., The Dream of the Rood, revised edition (Exeter, 1987).

Timbrell, Nicola and Ann Squires, The Dream of the Rood [computer software].
For technical details and supply, contact:
	Mrs Jean Burgan,
	CVCP/USDU,
	Level 6,
	University House,
	Sheffield
	S10 2TN
	UK

xv) Elene

Gradon, P.O.E., ed., Cynewulf's Elene, revised edition (Exeter, 1996).

Holt, Lucius Hudson, trans., The Elene of Cynewulf Translated into English Prose (New York, 1904).

Nelson, Marie, ed. and trans., Judith, Juliana, and Elene: Three Fighting Saints (New York, 1991).

xvi) Exodus

Lucas, Peter J., ed., Exodus, revised edition (Exeter, 1994).

Remley, Paul G., Old English Biblical Verse: Studies in Genesis, Exodus and Daniel (Cambridge, 1996).

xvii) Fates of the Apostles

Brooks, K.R., ed., Andreas and The Fates of the Apostles (Oxford, 1961).

xviii) Genesis (A and B)

Doane, A.N., ed., Genesis A: a New Edition (Madison, 1978).

Doane, A.N., ed., The Saxon Genesis: an Edition of the West Saxon Genesis B and the Old Saxon Vatican Genesis (London, 1991).

Mason, Lawrence, Genesis A Translated from the Old English (New York, 1915) Reprinted as An Anglo-Saxon Genesis (Lampeter, 1990).

Remley, Paul G., Old English Biblical Verse: Studies in Genesis, Exodus and Daniel (Cambridge, 1996).

Timmer, Benno J., ed., The Later Genesis Edited from MS Junius 11, revised edition (Oxford, 1954).

xix) Guthlac (A and B)

Griffiths, Bill, Guðlac B: a Translation of the Old English Poem on the Death of Saint Guthlac (Peterborough, 1985).

Olsen, A.H., Guthlac of Croyland: a Study of Heroic Hagiography (Washington, 1981).

Roberts, Jane, ed., The Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book (Oxford, 1980).

xx) The Husband's Message

Leslie, R.F., ed., Three Old English Elegies, revised edition (Exeter, 1988).

xxi) Judgement Day (I and II)

Lumby, J. Rawson, ed., Be Domes Dæge, De die iudicii: an Old English Version of the Latin Poem Ascribed to Bede (London, 1876).

xxii) Judith

Griffith, Mark, ed., Judith (Exeter, 1998).

Haley, Albert W., trans., Judith (Mattoon, Illinois, 1981).

Nelson, Marie, ed. and trans., Judith, Juliana, and Elene: Three Fighting Saints (New York, 1991).

Timmer, Benno J., ed., Judith, revised edition (Exeter, 1978).

xxiii) Juliana

Kennedy, Charles William, The Legend of St Juliana Translated from the Latin of the Acta sanctorum and the Anglo-Saxon of Cynewulf (Princeton, 1906).

Nelson, Marie, ed. and trans., Judith, Juliana, and Elene: Three Fighting Saints (New York, 1991).

Woolf, Rosemary, ed., Cynewulf's Juliana, revised edition (Exeter, 1993).

xxiv) The Leiden Riddle

Smith, A.H., ed., Three Northumbrian Poems, revised edition (Exeter, 1978).

xxv) Maxims (I and II)

Larrington, Carolyne, A Store of Common Sense: Gnomic Theme and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English Nature Poetry (Oxford, 1993).

Rodrigues, Louis J., Anglo-Saxon Verse Charms, Maxims and Heroic Legends (Lampeter, 1993).

Shippey, T.A., ed. and trans., Poems of Wisdom and Learning in Old English (Cambridge, 1976).

xxvi) Meters of Boethius

Griffiths, Bill, ed. and trans., Alfred's Meters of Boethius (Pinner, 1991).

xxvii) The Panther

Cook, Albert S., ed. and trans., The Old English Physiologus: Text and Prose Translation (New Haven, Connecticut, 1921).

Rodrigues, Louis J., trans., Anglo-Saxon Religious Verse Allegories (Felinfach, 1996).

Squires, Ann, ed., The Old English Physiologus (Durham, 1988).

xxviii) The Partridge

Cook, Albert S., ed. and trans., The Old English Physiologus: Text and Prose Translation (New Haven, Connecticut, 1921).

Rodrigues, Louis J., trans., Anglo-Saxon Religious Verse Allegories (Felinfach, 1996).

Squires, Ann, ed., The Old English Physiologus (Durham, 1988).

xxix) The Phoenix

Blake, N.F., ed., The Phoenix, revised edition (Exeter, 1990).

Griffiths, Bill, trans., The Old English Poem: the Phoenix (London, 1991).

Rodrigues, Louis J., trans., Anglo-Saxon Religious Verse Allegories (Felinfach, 1996).

xxx) Resignation (A and B)

Malmberg, Lars, ed., Resignation, revised reprint (Durham, 1982).

xxxi) Riddles

Crossley-Holland, Kevin, trans., The Exeter Book Riddles, revised edition (London, 1993).

Hacikyan, Agop, A Linguistic and Literary Analysis of Old English Riddles (Montreal, 1966).

Oda, Takuji, ed., A Concordance to the Riddles of the Exeter Book (Tokyo, 1982).

Porter, John, trans., Anglo-Saxon Riddles (Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1995).

Rodrigues, Louis J., trans., Sixty-Five Anglo-Saxon Riddles (Felinfach, 1998).

Tupper, Frederick, ed., The Riddles of the Exeter Book (London, 1910).

Williamson, Craig, trans., A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs (London, 1983).

Williamson, Craig, ed., The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book (Chapel Hill, 1977).

xxxii) The Riming Poem

Macrae-Gibson, O.D., ed., The Old English Riming Poem (Cambridge, 1983).

xxxiii) The Ruin

Leslie, R.F., ed., Three Old English Elegies, revised edition (Exeter, 1988).

xxxiv) The Rune Poem

Halsall, Maureen, ed., The Old English Rune Poem: a Critical Edition (Toronto, 1981).

Paul, Jim, trans., The Rune Poem: Wisdom's Fulfillment, Prophecy's Reach (San Francisco, 1996).

xxxv) The Seafarer

Conde Silvestre, Juan C., ''The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer': a Bibliography 1971-1991', SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature 2 (1992), 170-86.

Crossley-Holland, Kevin, trans., The Seafarer (Llandogo, 1988).

Gordon, I.L., ed., The Seafarer (London, 1960). Reprinted with a new bibliography by Mary layton (Exeter, 1996).

xxxvi) Solomon and Saturn

Menner, R.J., ed., The Poetical Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn (New York, 1941).

O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien, Source, Method, Theory, Practice: On Reading Two Old English Verse Texts (Manchester, 1994).

xxxvii) Soul and Body (I and II)

Moffat, Douglas, ed. and trans., The Old English Soul and Body: an Edition (Woodbridge, 1990).

Moffat, Douglas, ed., The Soul's Address to the Body: the Worcester Fragments (East Lansing, Michigan, 1987).

xxxviii) Waldere

Muir, Bernard J., ed., Leoð: Six Old English Poems: a Handbook (New York, 1989).

Norman, F., ed., Waldere, second edition (London, 1949).

Zettersten, Arne, ed., Waldere Edited from Royal Library, Copenhagen Ny Kgl. S. MS 167b (Manchester, 1979).

xxxix) The Wanderer

Conde Silvestre, Juan C., ''The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer': a Bibliography 1971-1991', SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature 2 (1992), 170-86.

Dunning, T.P. and A.J. Bliss, ed., The Wanderer (London, 1969).

Leslie, Roy F., ed., The Wanderer, revised edition (Exeter, 1985).

xl) The Whale

Cook, Albert S., ed. and trans., The Old English Physiologus: Text and Prose Translation (New Haven, Connecticut, 1921).

Rodrigues, Louis J., trans., Anglo-Saxon Religious Verse Allegories (Felinfach, 1996).

Squires, Ann, ed., The Old English Physiologus (Durham, 1988).

xl1) Widsith

Chambers, R.W., Widsith: a Study in Old English Heroic Legend (Cambridge, 1912).

Malone, K., ed., Widsith, second edition (Copenhagen, 1962).

Muir, Bernard J., ed., Leoð: Six Old English Poems: a Handbook (New York, 1989).

xlii) The Wife's Lament

Leslie, R.F., ed., Three Old English Elegies, revised edition (Exeter, 1988).

xliii) Wulf and Eadwacer

Dillon, Janette and Judith Jesch, Wulf [computer software].
For technical details and supply, contact:
	Dr J. Jesch,
	Department of English Studies,
	University of Nottingham,
	University Park,
	Nottingham
	NG7 2RD
	UK

6. Prose


a) Bibliographies and Reference Sources

Bibliographies and reference sources for individual prose authors and works can be found in part d.

Hollis, Stephanie and Michael Wright, Old English Prose of Secular Learning (Woodbridge, 1992).

Quinn, Karen J. and Kenneth P. Quinn, A Manual of Old English Prose (New York, 1990).

Robinson, Fred C., ed., Word-Indices to Old English Non-Poetic Texts (Hamden, Connecticut, 1974).

b) Commentaries

Bately, Janet M., The Literary Prose of King Alfred's Reign: Translation or Transformation? (London, 1980) Reprinted (Binghamton, N.Y., 1984).

Szarmach, Paul E., Studies in Earlier Old English Prose (New York, 1985).

c) Collections

Sedgefield, W.J., An Anglo-Saxon Prose-Book (Manchester, 1928).

Swanton, Michael, ed. and trans., Anglo-Saxon Prose second edition (London, 1993).

d) Individual Authors and Works

The authors listed below do not represent a complete list of known OE prose works. Such a list can be found in Cameron, in Section One, part 1.


i) Ælfric

For other works by Ælfric see Section Four.
Clemoes, Peter, ed., Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: the First Series (Oxford, 1997).

Clemoes, Peter, The Chronology of Ælfric's Works (Binghamton, N.Y., 1980).

Crawford, Samuel J., ed., Exameron anglice, or the Old English Hexameron (Hamburg, 1921) Reprinted (Darmstadt, 1968).

Crawford, Samuel J., ed., The Old English Version of the Heptateuch, Ælfric's Treatise on the Old and New Testament and his Preface to Genesis (London, 1922) Reprinted (London, 1969).

DiNapoli, Robert, An Index of Theme and Image to the Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Comprising the Homilies of Ælfric, Wulfstan, and the Blickling and Vercelli Codices (Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1995).

Fausbøll, Else, Fifty-Six Ælfric Fragments: the Newly-Found Copenhagen Fragments of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies with Facsimiles (Copenhagen, 1986).

Fehr, B., ed., Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics in altenglischer und lateinischer Fassung (Hamburg, 1914) Reprinted (Darmstadt, 1966).

Garmonsway, G.N., ed., Ælfric's Colloquy, revised edition (Exeter, 1978).

Gatch, M. McC., Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England: Ælfric and Wulfstan (Toronto, 1977).

Godden, Malcolm, ed., Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: the Second Series (London, 1979).

Griffiths, Bill, ed. and trans., St Cuthbert: Ælfric's Life of the Saint in Old English with Modern English Parallel (Seaham, 1992).

Grundy, Lynne, Books and Grace: Ælfric's Theology (London, 1991).

Henel, H., ed., Ælfric's De temporibus anni (London, 1942) Reprinted (London, 1971).

Irvine, Susan, ed., Old English Homilies from MS Bodley 343 (Oxford, 1993).
Four of the seven homilies published here are by Ælfric.

Needham, G.I., ed., Ælfric: Lives of Three English Saints, revised edition (Exeter, 1976).
The lives of Saints Oswald, Edmund, and Swithun.

Pope, J.C., ed., Homilies of Ælfric: a Supplementary Collection, 2 vols. (London, 1967-8).

Reinsma, Luke M., Ælfric: an Annotated Bibliography (London, 1987).

Skeat, W.W., ed., Ælfric's Lives of Saints, 4 vols. (London, 1881-1900) Reprinted in 2 vols. (London, 1966).

Wilcox, Jonathan, ed., Ælfric's Prefaces (Durham, 1994).

Wyatt, A.J. and H.H. Johnson, A Glossary to Ælfric's Homilies (London, 1890).

ii) Aldred

Boyd, W.J.P., Aldred's Marginalia: Explanatory Comments in the Lindisfarne Gospels (Exeter, 1975).

iii) Alfredian and Other Translations

Bately, Janet M., The Literary Prose of King Alfred's Reign: Translation or Transformation? (London, 1980) Reprinted (Binghamton, N.Y., 1984).

Bately, Janet M., ed., The Old English Orosius (London, 1980).

Carnicelli, T.A., ed., King Alfred's Version of St Augustine's Soliloquies (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969).

Frantzen, Allen J., King Alfred (Boston, 1986).
This book discusses King Alfred as an author.

Giles, J.A., ed., The Whole Works of Alfred the Great, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1852-8).
Translations of Alfred's works by various scholars.

Hecht, H., ed., Bischof Wærferths von Worcester Uebersetzung der Dialoge Gregors des Grossen (Leipzig, 1900-7) Reprinted (Darmstadt, 1965).

Jessup, Sukey S.M., Remembrance in Good Works: a Study of the Prose Translations of King Alfred (Folkestone, 1979).

Lund, Niels, ed., Two Voyagers at the Court of King Alfred: the Ventures of Ohthere and Wulfstan Together with the Description of Northern Europe from the Old English Orosius (York, 1984).

Payne, F. Anne, King Alfred and Boethius: an Analysis of the Old English Version of the Consolation of Philosophy (Madison, 1968).

Roberts, Jane and Janet L. Nelson with Malcolm Godden, Alfred the Wise: Studies in Honour of Janet Bately on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Cambridge, 1997).

Sedgefield, W.J., ed., King Alfred's Old English Version of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae (Oxford, 1899) Reprinted (Darmstadt, 1968).

Sweet, H., ed., King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (London, 1871) Reprinted (London, 1958).

Yerkes, David, ed., The Two Versions of Wærferth's Translation of Gregory's Dialogues: an Old English Thesaurus (Toronto, 1979).

iv) Biblical and Apocryphal Translations

Bright, J.W. and R.L. Ramsay, The West-Saxon Psalms (Boston, 1907).

Campbell, A.P., ed., The Tiberius Psalter Edited from British Museum MS Cotton Tiberius Cvi (Ottawa, 1974).

Crawford, Samuel J., ed., The Gospel of Nicodemus (Edinburgh, 1927).

Cross, J.E., ed., Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source: The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour (Cambridge, 1996).

Kimmens, Andrew C., ed., The Stowe Psalter (Toronto, 1979).
Only the more recently edited psalter glosses are included here, but Kimmens' bibliography has a list of all psalters glossed in OE, with details of their publication.

Kuhn, S.M., ed., The Vespasian Psalter (Ann Arbor, 1965).

Liuzza, Roy M., ed., The Old English Version of the Gospels, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1994 onwards).
This is the first critical edition of the OE translation of the gospels. Only vol. 1, Text and Translation, is currently published.

Morrell, Minnie Cate, A Manual of Old English Biblical Materials (Knoxville, 1965).

Rosier, J.L., ed., The Vitellius Psalter Edited from British Museum MS Cotton Vitellius Exviii (Ithaca, 1962).

Sisam, C. and K. Sisam, ed., The Salisbury Psalter Edited from Salisbury Cathedral MS 150 (London, 1959).

Skeat, W.W., ed., The Holy Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian and Old Mercian Versions (Cambridge, 1871-87) Reprinted (Darmstadt, 1970).

Smith, Andrea B., ed., The Anonymous Parts of the Old English Hexateuch: a Latin-Old English/Old English-Latin Glossary (Cambridge, 1985).

Stracke, Richard, The Paris Prose [web-site].
The OE prose version of the Paris Psalter.
Web: http://www.aug.edu/augusta/arsenal/psalms/main.htm

v) Byrhtferth of Ramsey

Baker, Peter S. and Michael Lapidge, ed., Byrhtferth's Enchiridion (Oxford, 1995).

vi) Confessional and Penitential Texts

Frantzen, Allen J., The Literature of Penance in Anglo-Saxon England (New Brunswick, 1983).

Spindler, Robert, ed., Das altenglische Bussbuch (sog. Confessionale pseudo-Egberti): ein Beitrag zu den kirchlichen Gesetzen der Angelsachsen (Leipzig, 1934).

vii) Dialogues

Cross, James E. and Thomas D. Hill, The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus (Toronto, 1982).

viii) Homilies and Saints' Lives (Anonymous)

Assmann, Bruno, ed., Angelsächsische Homilien und Heiligenleben (Kassel, 1889).

Bately, Janet, Anonymous Old English Homilies: a Preliminary Bibliography of Source Studies (Binghamton, N.Y., 1993).
The web version is the second edition of this bibliography.
Web: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/rawl/bately1/index.html

Bazire, Joyce and James E. Cross, ed., Eleven Old English Rogationtide Homilies (London, 1989).

Bodden, Mary-Catherine, ed. and trans., The Old English Finding of the True Cross (Cambridge, 1987).

Clayton, Mary and Hugh Magennis, The Old English Lives of St Margaret (Cambridge, 1994).

DiNapoli, Robert, An Index of Theme and Image to the Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Comprising the Homilies of Ælfric, Wulfstan, and the Blickling and Vercelli Codices (Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1995).

Förster, M., ed., Die Vercelli-Homilien, I-VIII Homilie (Hamburg, 1932) Reprinted (Darmstadt, 1964).
See also Szarmach (1981).

Gonser, P., ed., Das angelsächsische Prosa-leben des heiligen Guthlac (Heidelberg, 1909).

Irvine, Susan, ed., Old English Homilies from MS Bodley 343 (Oxford, 1993).

Kotzor, Günter, ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium, 2 vols. (Munich, 1981).

Magennis, Hugh, ed., The Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers (Durham, 1994).

Morris, R., ed., The Blickling Homilies of the Tenth Century (London, 1874-80) Reprinted (London, 1967).

Napier, Arthur S., ed., History of the Holy Rood-Tree (London, 1894).

Nicholson, Lewis E., ed., The Vercelli Book Homilies: Translations from the Anglo-Saxon (London, 1991).

Scragg, D.G., 'The Corpus of Vernacular Homilies and Prose Saints' Lives before Ælfric', Anglo-Saxon England 8 (1979), 223-77.

Scragg, D.G., ed., The Vercelli Homilies and Related Texts (Oxford, 1992).

Szarmach, Paul E., ed., Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Lives and their Contexts (Albany, 1996).

Szarmach, Paul E., ed., Vercelli Homilies IX-XXIII (Toronto, 1981).
See also Förster.

Szarmach, Paul E. and Bernard F. Huppé, ed., The Old English Homily and its Background (Albany, 1978).

Vleeskruyer, R., ed., The Life of St Chad: an Old English Homily (Amsterdam, 1953).

Warner, R.D-N., ed., Early English Homilies from the Twelfth Century MS Vespasian Dxiv (London, 1917).

Yerkes, David, ed., The Old English Life of Machutus (Toronto, 1984).

ix) Liturgical Texts, Creeds, Prayers

Gneuss, H., Hymnar und Hymnen im englischen Mittelalter (Tübingen, 1968).

Gneuss, H., 'Liturgical Books in Anglo-Saxon England and their Old English Terminology', Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. by M. Lapidge and H. Gneuss (Cambridge, 1985), p. 91-141.

Griffiths, Bill, ed. and trans., The Service of Prime from the Old English Benedictine Office: Text and Translation (Pinner, 1991).

Kuypers, A.B., ed., The Prayer Book of Ædeluald the Bishop, Commonly Called the Book of Cerne (Cambridge, 1902).

Milfull, Inge, The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church: a Study and Edition of the Durham Hymnal (Cambridge, 1996).

Muir, Bernard J., ed., A Pre-Conquest English Prayer-Book (Woodbridge, 1988).

Stevenson, Joseph, ed., The Latin Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church with an Interlinear Anglo-Saxon Gloss (Durham, 1851).

Thompson, A.H. and V. Lindelöf, ed., Rituale ecclesiae Dunelmensis: the Durham Collectar (Durham, 1927).

Ure, J.M., ed., The Benedictine Office (Edinburgh, 1957).

x) Medical Texts

For commentaries on Anglo-Saxon medical texts, see Section Six, part 3j.
Bierbaumer, Peter, Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen, 3 vols. (Bern, 1975-9).

Cockayne, Thomas O., ed. and trans., Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England, 3 vols. (London, 1864-6) Reprinted with a new introduction (London, 1961) Reprinted (New York, 1965).

De Vriend, Hubert Jan, ed., The Old English Herbarium and 'Medicina de quadrupedibus' (London, 1984).

Grattan, J.H.G. and Charles Singer, Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine Illustrated Specially from the Semi-Pagan Text 'Lacnunga' (London, 1952) Reprinted (Philadelphia, 1978).

xi) Romance and Vision Literature

Ball, Catherine N., Apollonius of Tyre: a Hypertext Edition [web-site].
An edition and translation based on the 1834 edition by Benjamin Thorpe.
Web: http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/apt/apt.html

Goolden, Peter, ed., The Old English Apollonius of Tyre (London, 1958).

xii) Rules for Monks and Canons

Logeman, H., ed., The Rule of S. Benet: Latin and Anglo-Saxon Interlinear Version (London, 1888) Reprinted (Millwood, N.Y., 1975).

Napier, Arthur S., ed., The Old English Version of the Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang Together with the Latin Original (London, 1916) Reprinted (Millwood, N.Y., 1988).

xiii) Scientific Texts (Non-Medical)

Evans, J. and M.S. Serjeantson, English Mediaeval Lapidaries (London, 1933).

Jones, Charles W., Bede, the Schools and the Computus, ed. by Wesley M. Stevens (Aldershot, 1994).

Rypins, Stanley I., ed., Three Old English Prose Texts in MS Cotton Vitellius Axv (London, 1924) Reprinted (Millwood, N.Y., 1971).

xiv) Wulfstan

Bernstein, Melissa J., The Electronic Sermo Lupi ad Anglos [web-site].
An edition of the OE text by Bernstein, with a translation, notes, and other information.
Web: http://www.cif.rochester.edu/~mjbernst/wulfstan/

Bethurum, Dorothy, ed., The Homilies of Wulfstan (Oxford, 1957).

DiNapoli, Robert, An Index of Theme and Image to the Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Comprising the Homilies of Ælfric, Wulfstan, and the Blickling and Vercelli Codices (Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1995).

Fowler, Roger, ed., Wulfstan's Canons of Edgar (London, 1972).

Gatch, M. McC., Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England: Ælfric and Wulfstan (Toronto, 1977).

Jost, K., ed., Die 'Institutes of Polity, Civil and Ecclesiastical': ein Werk Erzbischof Wulfstans von York (Bern, 1959).

MacIntosh, Angus, Wulfstan's Prose (London, 1950).

Whitelock, Dorothy, ed., Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, revised edition (Exeter, 1976).