Old English
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- Beowulf: Prologue
- Bede's Account of the Poet Caedmon
- Cynewulf and Cyneheard
- The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan
- Alfred's Wars with the Danes
- The Battle of Maldon
- Genesis A: the Flood
- The Wanderer
- The Seafarer
- Beowulf: the Funeral