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Kevin Crossley-Holland, trans.
The Anglo-Saxon World; new edition.

Published Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002 (previous edition was 1982).
ISBN 0851158854;
ISBN-13: 9780851158853.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 164×240×27mm.
Page count: text [xx],276pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the usual storage wear, noticeable but not severe; pages starting to yellow with age.


This item £6.00
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within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £25.00/$55.00]
Weight without packaging: 857g.

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Contents: presents 50 selections in modern English translation, organised under the following headings: Heroic poems; Laws; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; Elegies; Exploration; Epic [presents Beowulf complete]; Kingdom of God; Greetings in Christ; Christian poems; Example & exhortation; I saw a strange creature…; Charters, tracts & wills; Charms & remedies; Allegory; Sermon; Destiny.

Illustrations: several monochrome illustrations, plus 8 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 3pp general, with individual intros. to each main section
Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: no

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