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Anglo Saxon Books
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Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.50 — 354,410 ratings — published 1000
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.27 — 115,436 ratings — published 2004
The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.32 — 63,488 ratings — published 2006
Lords of the North (The Saxon Stories, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.36 — 53,958 ratings — published 2007
Sword Song (The Saxon Stories, #4)
by (shelved 30 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.33 — 46,767 ratings — published 2007
The Burning Land (The Saxon Stories, #5)
by (shelved 29 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.31 — 42,122 ratings — published 2009
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,986 ratings — published 731
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.07 — 953 ratings — published 1982
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,190 ratings — published 890
Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.15 — 384 ratings — published 1943
Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)
by (shelved 21 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.31 — 34,963 ratings — published 2011
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,881 ratings — published 2021
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,822 ratings — published 2014
In Search of the Dark Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,144 ratings — published 1981
The Anglo-Saxons (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.06 — 640 ratings — published 1982
The Pagan Lord (The Saxon Stories, #7)
by (shelved 16 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.37 — 31,615 ratings — published 2013
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.88 — 968 ratings — published 893
Æthelstan: The First King of England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.79 — 343 ratings — published 2011
The Forever Queen (Saxon #2)
by (shelved 14 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,114 ratings — published 2004
Grendel (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.69 — 43,333 ratings — published 1971
Warriors of the Storm (The Saxon Stories, #9)
by (shelved 13 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.42 — 26,329 ratings — published 2015
The Empty Throne (The Saxon Stories, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.39 — 28,770 ratings — published 2014
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, #14)
by (shelved 12 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.93 — 237 ratings — published 1894
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,126 ratings — published 2022
The Anglo-Saxon World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.13 — 366 ratings — published 2013
The Earliest English Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.93 — 774 ratings — published 1966
The Flame Bearer (The Saxon Stories, #10)
by (shelved 10 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.43 — 24,967 ratings — published 2016
I Am the Chosen King (Saxon #1)
by (shelved 10 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,353 ratings — published 2000
Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.79 — 192 ratings — published 2002
1066: The Year of the Conquest (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,661 ratings — published 1977
Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.95 — 233 ratings — published 1997
A Guide to Old English (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.14 — 416 ratings — published 1964
Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Everyman's Library)
by (shelved 9 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.11 — 313 ratings — published 1982
Sword of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #12)
by (shelved 8 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.42 — 17,924 ratings — published 2019
The Serpent Sword (The Bernicia Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,912 ratings — published 2015
Shadow on the Crown (The Emma of Normandy Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 8 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,278 ratings — published 2013
Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.05 — 61 ratings — published 1990
Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.01 — 513 ratings — published 2010
Looking for the Lost Gods of England (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.91 — 178 ratings — published 1994
Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.82 — 829 ratings — published 2005
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,575 ratings — published 2018
War Lord (The Saxon Stories, #13)
by (shelved 7 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.60 — 16,372 ratings — published 2020
War of the Wolf (The Saxon Stories, #11)
by (shelved 7 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.36 — 20,545 ratings — published 2018
Edwin: High King of Britain (The Northumbrian Thrones #1)
by (shelved 7 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.96 — 455 ratings — published 2014
The Exeter Book Riddles (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.88 — 217 ratings — published 970
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,077 ratings — published 1983
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,174 ratings — published 2021
The Battle of Maldon (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 3.66 — 492 ratings — published 1090
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
by (shelved 6 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.39 — 139,010 ratings — published 2020
Building Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as anglo-saxon)
avg rating 4.26 — 46 ratings — published 2018
“I’ve always like Medieval literature. As a young girl I read mythologies and Norse legends, that sort of thing. I loved Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While I was studying at Middle Tennessee State University for doctoral program I came in contact with more ancient literature. I examined older literature more seriously which intrigued and fascinated me very much; I was drawn to it.
For the book I used all my own translations of Beowulf from my doctorate. Culture is contained in language, if you study a language you’ll see bits of culture, because the words are different and you see into the lives of the people. The Anglo-Saxon language touched me very deeply. Some of it is the heroic. Some of it is the melancholy. But there is also honor. You uphold, you fight to the death. Even if you watch movies, like Marvel comic book movies, like Thor: you want the great ones to win. Its even better if they have a fault. But you want the heroic character to win.”
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For the book I used all my own translations of Beowulf from my doctorate. Culture is contained in language, if you study a language you’ll see bits of culture, because the words are different and you see into the lives of the people. The Anglo-Saxon language touched me very deeply. Some of it is the heroic. Some of it is the melancholy. But there is also honor. You uphold, you fight to the death. Even if you watch movies, like Marvel comic book movies, like Thor: you want the great ones to win. Its even better if they have a fault. But you want the heroic character to win.”
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“If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts;
Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void”
― Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures
Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void”
― Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures
