Forgotten Ground Regained
Ða Engliscan Gesithas (The English Companions)
Ða Engliscan Gesithas is a British society devoted to all things Old English. Since the early 1980s, they have reguarly published alliterative verse in their quarterly magazine, Withowinde, and run a biennial competition, the Cædmon Prize, for the best poem in the Old English style.
Cædmon Prize Winners
Cædmon Prize winners include the following modern English poems (in some years, the winners were written in Old English) They were also reprinted in the Summer, 2024, issue of Forgotten Ground Regained:
- Charles R. Sleeth, After the Flood (1984)
- Brian Mitchell, Grondeswigyle (1986)
- Pat Masson, Dragon-Fighter (1988)
- Chris McCully, Cape Wrath (1992)
- Ian Greenwood, The Whitby Elegy (1994)
- Steven Close, Ingelrii’s Maþþumsweord (2012)
- Martin Vine, The Commuter (2016)
- Martin Vine, The Wood (2019)
- John Whitbourn, From Place to Place (2022)
- David Jones, Cuthbert's Way (2023)
Highlighted Poems
The following poems originally published in Withowinde were reprinted in the Summer, 2024, issue of Forgotten Ground Regained
- Brian Bishop, Catullus Poem No. 3 (1999)
- P.D. Brown, October 14th (2007)
- L.A. Hood, Leaf (1998)
- Damon Lord, The Severn (2019)
- Tony Mitchell, Toys (2012)
- Steve Pollington, Farewell (2002)
- Phyllis Wicks, Warriors (2023)
- Brian Wright, Cain’s Kin (Grendel Alone) (2003)
Other Withowinde Poets and Poems Online
- The Coming Winter (Withowinde, 2012)
- On Senlac Ridge (Withowinde, 1999)
- Rædwald’s Return (Withowinde, 2005)
- Over the Sea (2010)
- A Puzzle (Withowinde, 2015)
- Two Riddles (Withowinde, 1993)
- Love (Withowinde, 2019)
- Wayland’s Revenge (Withowinde, 1993)
- Sweord (Withowinde, 1997)
- The Scop of Streoneshall (Withowinde, 1995)
- Hoder’s Song (Withowinde 1997).
- Riddle (Withowinde, 1976)
- Mnemonic for the Futharc (Withowinde, 1980)
- A Lay of St. Boniface (Forgotten Ground Regained, 2024)
- The Last Valkyrie (Forgotten Ground Regained, 2024)
- Hymn to Earendil (Mallorn, 1980)
- The Yule Tree (Forgotten Ground Regained, 2024)
- Making Waves (Forgotten Ground Regained, 2024)
- Strange Season (Withowinde, 2021)
- Huscarl (Withowinde, 2021)
- Excerpt from Wuffingatæl (Withowinde, 1990).
- Hengest Wants War-Companions (Withowinde, 2012)
Karl Thornley
- The Lay of the Sea-Wife (Withowinde, 1996)
- After the Equinox
- Modern Historian’s Riddle
- Ancestral Echoes (Withowinde, 2017)
- Land Rites (Withowinde, 2012)
- Lay of the Staffordshire Ford Dragon (Withowinde, 2011)
- Beor’s Lament (Withowinde, 2006)
- Heorot, The Early Days (Withowinde, 2002)
- At Ethandun (Withowinde, 1999)
- King Penda’s Apache Attack Helicopters (Withowinde, 1998)
- Extract from ‘Malfosse’ (Withowinde, 1995)
- Blodmonath [from South Saxon Chronicle]
- Epitaph to the Sussex King before Æthelwalch [from Winlandes Saga, #5]
- Place of Slaughter [from The Dark Path]
- The Modern Poet’s Word-Hoard (Withowinde, 2020)
- The Sais and Taliesin (Withowinde, 1999)
- Giants’ Work (Withowinde, 1999)
- At the Place of the Hoary Apple Tree (Withowinde, 1998)
- Icy Yule (Withowinde, 1997)
- Lords of Battle (Withowinde, 2023)
Alliterative Verse Translations First Published in Withowinde
- The Home-Reft, Withowide 106, pp. 4-5
- The Fight at Finnsburu, Withowinde 109, p. 10
- Deor, Withowinde 113, p. 7
• The Battle of Brunnburh, Withowinde 193, pp. 35-37• Deor, Withowinde 194, pp. 30-31
Other Withowinde Poems in Alliterative Verse
- Anonymous poems in Mike Jensen's article, "Modern English Rune Poetry", Withowinde 31, pp. 9-14
- Anonymous Cædmon Prize entry,. "Great Challengers", Withwinde 176, p. 14.
- Anonymous Cædmon Prize entry, "The Martyrdom of Alban", Withowinde 184, p. 13
- Anonymous Cædmon Prize entry, "Deorbi", Witowinde 208, p.38
- Beryl Bickerstaff, "An alliterative Poem”, Withowinde 127, p. 6, Spring 2002.
- Phil Clark, Translation of “The Seafarer”, Withowinde 94, pp. 6-7
- Anthea Crane, Two Riddles in the Old English Style, Withowinde 176 pp. 14-15
- John Edkins, An original apology for absence, Withowinde 42, p. 3
- Rahul Gupta, “The Old English Rune Poem”, Withowinde, 195, pp. 29-31
- Guy Hollowell, “Æthelbert and the Fire-Drakes”, Withowinde 72, p. 22, Easter, 1985
- Zin Walker, “Hengest’s People”, Withowinde 121, p. 2, Spring, 2000
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