Produced by David Starner, Annika Feilbach and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. (www.pgdp.net) ELENE; JUDITH; ATHELSTAN, OR THE FIGHT AT BRUNANBURH; BYRHTNOTH, OR THE FIGHT AT MALDON; AND THE DREAM OF THE ROOD: Anglo-Saxon Poems. TRANSLATED BY JAMES M. GARNETT, M.A., LL.D., FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA; TRANSLATOR OF "BÉOWULF." _THIRD EDITION._ BOSTON, U.S.A.: GINN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. The Athenæum Press. 1911. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, by JAMES M. GARNETT, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY JAMES M. GARNETT. COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY JAMES M. GARNETT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TO PROFESSOR FRANCIS A. MARCH CORYPHÆUS OF OLD ENGLISH STUDIES IN AMERICA WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE HIGHEST REGARD CONTENTS. PAGE PREFACE vii INTRODUCTION ix * * * * * ELENE. I. Constantine sees the vision of the rood 1 II. Constantine is victorious, the sign is explained, and he is baptized 4 III. Helena sets out on her journey in search of the cross, and arrives at Jerusalem 7 IV. Helena summons an assembly of the Jews learned in the law, and addresses them 10 V. The Jews consult apart, and Judas states the object of the Empress 13 VI. Judas gives the Jews the information derived from his father and grandfather 16 VII. The Jews at first refuse to act, but finally deliver up Judas to the Empress 19 VIII. Judas stubbornly denies all knowledge of the matter, but after imprisonment without food consents to speak 21 IX. They proceed to Calvary, and Judas offers a prayer for guidance 24 X. A smoke arises, Judas digs and finds three crosses. Test of the true cross 27 XI. The fiend laments that he is overcome. Judas replies to him 30 XII. Helena announces the discovery to Constantine, who orders a church to be built on the spot. Judas is baptized 32 XIII. Judas is ordained bishop of Jerusalem, and his name is changed to Cyriacus. Helena longs to recover the nails. Judas prays, digs, and finds them 35 XIV. The nails are made into a bit for Constantine's horse. Helena admonishes all to obey Cyriacus and returns home 38