Translations
The books on this page are (at least roughly) alliterative translations of alliterative verse. As such, they illustrate the potential of the form in modern English not just in the original language.
Old English Poetry
Poetic Edda
Poetic Edda
Beowulf
Pearl
Piers Plowman
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
York Mystery Plays
Death of Artur
The Hildebrandslied
The Nibelung's Ring
The Saxon Gospel
Old English meditations for Advent and Christmastide (Exeter Book)
Old High German Poetry: An Anthology
The Song Weigher
Crimsoning the
Eagle's Claw
Boethius, The Poetry from the Consolations of Phillosophy,
translated by Peter Glassgold
[significant portions in alliterative verse, review here]
The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry
The Tale of Charlemagne
and Ralph the Collier
Lofsangas: Poems New and Old
The Romance of William
and the Werewolf
Patience
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