Poems in Alliterative Verse about the Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Celtic Worlds

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The Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Celtic Worlds

This page showcases poems on this site inspired by the Poetic Edda or, more generally, by the ancient Pagan world from which the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Celts emerged. For more poems on this theme, consult the following pages: Longer Works, Collections, Translations, Old English, Beowulf, Oher Languages, SF Authors and Fans (scroll down, or search on the page for 'Viking' or 'Anglo-Saxon'),  The Riddle Tour, and Pagans.

A Lay of St. Boniface
An Anglo-Saxon Riddle
A Riddle
A Trinity Riddle
At Ethandun
At the Place of the Hoary Apple Tree 
Aurgellmir
Battle of the Bards
Beowulf (multiple excerpts)
Blodmonath
Caedmon Remembers
Cain's Kin (Grendel Alone)
Catching Loopy
Creation
Cuthbert's Way
Deor (translation)
Dragon-Fighter
Epitaph to the Sussex King before Æthelwalch
Farewell
From Place to Place
Gleipnir: To Bind the Wolf
Giants’ Work
Gleipnir: To Bind the Wolf
Hengest Wants War-Companions
Hervör
Huscarl
Ingelrii’s Maþþumsweord
Hoder's Song
Icy Yule
Journey to the West
Lady of Cats
Lords of Battle
Extract from ‘Malfosse’

Leaf
Mnemonic for the Futharc
Modern Historian’s Riddle
Mother's Song
Octdober 14th
Over the Sea
Place of Slaughter
Quest for Valhalla
Rædwald’s Return
Sweord
Sword-Maiden's Song
The Battlefield
The Coming Winter
The Lay of Thrym (translation)
The Runes of Weland's Sword
The Eightfold Year
The Exiles' Song
The Lay of the Sea-Wife
The Sais and Taliesin
The Scop of Streoneshall
The Seafarer (translation)
The Swan's Song (translation)
The Talisman
The Translator, Working Late
The Wanderer
The Westfarer
The Yule Tree
Toys
Ulfhildr (audio: Part I, Part II, and Part III)
Volund's Revenge
Warriors
Wayland's Revenge
Excerpt from Wuffingatæl

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