The Vercelli Book Homilies: Translations from the Anglo-Saxon

by Lewis E. Nicholson

This book contains the twenty-three prose works of The Vercelli Book, a late tenth-century manuscript. With the exception of some three or four homilies, these works have never before appeared in translated form, much less in a collection. The Vercelli Book contains a significant body of prose and poetry. While the poetry is already well known, having been translated many times, the prose, largely untranslated, remains for many relatively...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819181161
• ISBN13: 9780819181169
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"