3. ELEGIAC GROUP The Wanderer 62 The Seafarer 68 The Wife's Lament 72 The Husband's Message 75 The Ruin 78 II. CHRISTIAN POETRY 1. CAEDMONIAN SCHOOL. Caedmon's Hymn 83 Bede's Death Song 84 Selection From Genesis--The Offering of Isaac 85 Selection From Exodus--The Crossing of the Red Sea 90 2. CYNEWULF AND HIS SCHOOL a. Cynewulf (1) Selections from Christ 95 1. Hymn to Christ 96 2. Hymn to Jerusalem 96 3. Joseph and Mary 97 4. Runic Passage 100 (2) Selections from Elene 103 1. The Vision of the Cross 103 2. The Discovery of the Cross 105 b. Anonymous Poems of the Cynewulfian School (1) The Dream of the Rood 108 (2) Judith 116 (3) The Phoenix 132 (4) The Grave 157 III. POEMS FROM THE CHRONICLE The Battle of Brunnanburg 159 The Battle of Maldon 163 APPENDIX--PROSE SELECTIONS Account of the Poet Caedmon 179 Alfred's Preface to His Translation of Gregory's "Pastoral Care" 183 Conversion of Edwin 187 Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan 189 PREFACE