Best Anglo Saxon books

1.
Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,025 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World 3.87 avg rating — 5,818 ratings
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
by: Bede
3.83 avg rating — 4,778 ratings
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Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode
Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 380 ratings
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The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle 3.98 avg rating — 963 ratings
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The First Poems in English
The First Poems in English 3.93 avg rating — 730 ratings
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Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
by: Asser
3.87 avg rating — 929 ratings
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The History of the Kings of Britain
The History of the Kings of Britain 3.72 avg rating — 6,790 ratings
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Tree and Leaf; Smith of Wootton Major; The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
Tree and Leaf; Smith of Wootton Major; The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth 3.98 avg rating — 657 ratings
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Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, #248)
Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, #248) 4.11 avg rating — 372 ratings
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The Old English Exodus
The Old English Exodus 3.69 avg rating — 32 ratings
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1066: The Year of the Conquest
1066: The Year of the Conquest 4.06 avg rating — 4,524 ratings
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In Search of the Dark Ages
In Search of the Dark Ages really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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The Exeter Book Riddles
The Exeter Book Riddles 3.88 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Roman Britain and Early England: 55 BC - AD 871
Roman Britain and Early England: 55 BC - AD 871 3.80 avg rating — 165 ratings
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A Guide to Old English
A Guide to Old English 4.14 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare 4.17 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great
The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great 4.40 avg rating — 1,227 ratings
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology 4.07 avg rating — 914 ratings
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An Introduction to English Runes
An Introduction to English Runes
by: R.I. Page
3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature 4.04 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons 4.05 avg rating — 634 ratings
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The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England
The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England 4.34 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070
Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 4.01 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 8)
Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 8) 4.16 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Heathen Gods in Old English Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, #22)
Heathen Gods in Old English Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, #22) 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman 3.44 avg rating — 3,091 ratings
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A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse 3.93 avg rating — 233 ratings
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The Middle Ages
The Middle Ages 4.04 avg rating — 180 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way 3.91 avg rating — 43,559 ratings
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Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew
Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew
by: Unknown
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Beowulf Handbook
A Beowulf Handbook 4.21 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Cold Heart, Cruel Hand: A Novel Of Hereward The Wake and The Fen Rebellion of 1070-1071
Cold Heart, Cruel Hand: A Novel Of Hereward The Wake and The Fen Rebellion of 1070-1071 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays 3.96 avg rating — 4,007 ratings
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An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England
An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England 3.57 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Sarum Part I
Sarum Part I 4.30 avg rating — 147 ratings
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A Study of Old English Literature
A Study of Old English Literature 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Peace-Weavers and Shield-Maidens: Women in Early English Society
Peace-Weavers and Shield-Maidens: Women in Early English Society 3.83 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Queen of the Lightning
Queen of the Lightning 3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Word Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary
Word Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary 4.11 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great 4.20 avg rating — 525 ratings
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The Battle Of Maldon, AD 991
The Battle Of Maldon, AD 991 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles
The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles 3.88 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript
Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript 4.13 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Beowulf and Lejre (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, #323)
Beowulf and Lejre (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, #323) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Aldhelm: The Poetic Works
Aldhelm: The Poetic Works
by: Aldhelm
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Battle of Maldon
The Battle of Maldon
by: Anonymous
3.66 avg rating — 471 ratings
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The Poems of Cynewulf
The Poems of Cynewulf
by: Cynewulf
3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland 3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings
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William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Earliest Period to the Reign of King Stephen
William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Earliest Period to the Reign of King Stephen 3.83 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Saxon and Norman Kings
The Saxon and Norman Kings 3.54 avg rating — 109 ratings
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King Alfred: Burnt Cakes and Other Legends
King Alfred: Burnt Cakes and Other Legends 3.28 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh
Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh
by: Unknown
3.87 avg rating — 3,295 ratings
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The Age of Bede
The Age of Bede
by: Bede
3.80 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon England 4.15 avg rating — 369 ratings
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An Anthology of Old English Poetry
An Anthology of Old English Poetry 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Guide to English Literature from Beowulf through Chaucer and Medieval Drama
Guide to English Literature from Beowulf through Chaucer and Medieval Drama 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Origins of Beowulf, and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia
The Origins of Beowulf, and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia 4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language 3.94 avg rating — 5,091 ratings
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The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society
The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society 4.41 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Poems and Prose from the Old English
Poems and Prose from the Old English 4.23 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England
Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England 3.81 avg rating — 806 ratings
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A Companion to Bede: A Reader's Commentary on The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
A Companion to Bede: A Reader's Commentary on The Ecclesiastical History of the English People really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Women in Anglo-Saxon England
Women in Anglo-Saxon England 3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook (Liverpool Historical Casebooks)
The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook (Liverpool Historical Casebooks) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England
Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England
by: Eric John
3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Origins of Beowulf: From Vergil to Wiglaf
The Origins of Beowulf: From Vergil to Wiglaf 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Old English Epic of Waldere
The Old English Epic of Waldere 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Beowulf and the Seventh Century
Beowulf and the Seventh Century 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Cynewulf's Elene
Cynewulf's Elene
by: Cynewulf
3.35 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Life of Bishop Wilfrid
The Life of Bishop Wilfrid 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Saints and Relics in Anglo Saxon England
Saints and Relics in Anglo Saxon England 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Beowulf and Its Analogues
Beowulf and Its Analogues 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary With Supplement. (Two Volumes)
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary With Supplement. (Two Volumes) 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food: Processing and Consumption
A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food: Processing and Consumption
by: Ann Hagen
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Seafarer
The Seafarer 4.22 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation 4.26 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Leofric: Sword of the Angles (Leofric #1)
Leofric: Sword of the Angles (Leofric #1) 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes 3.66 avg rating — 635 ratings
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Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great 3.25 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Domesday: In Search of the Roots of England
Domesday: In Search of the Roots of England 3.76 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Grendel
Grendel 3.69 avg rating — 41,618 ratings
82.
Looking for the Lost Gods of England
Looking for the Lost Gods of England 3.91 avg rating — 174 ratings
82.
Leofric: Sacrifice (Leofric #0.5)
Leofric: Sacrifice (Leofric #0.5) 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King
Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King 3.94 avg rating — 219 ratings
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A Critical Companion to Beowulf
A Critical Companion to Beowulf 4.10 avg rating — 50 ratings
86.
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England 4.52 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Old English Literature: A Short Introduction
Old English Literature: A Short Introduction 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Cambridge Old English Reader
The Cambridge Old English Reader 4.03 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain 4.15 avg rating — 393 ratings
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The Dream of the Rood
The Dream of the Rood
by: Cynewulf
3.72 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Fight at Finnsburg (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, #3)
The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Fight at Finnsburg (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Battle of Hastings: Sources and Interpretations (Warfare in History, 1)
The Battle of Hastings: Sources and Interpretations (Warfare in History, 1) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
92.
English Warrior from earliest times to 1066
English Warrior from earliest times to 1066 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
92.
Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo Saxon England, AD 450-700
Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo Saxon England, AD 450-700 4.35 avg rating — 37 ratings
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King Alfred the Great
King Alfred the Great 3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Poems from the Old English
Poems from the Old English 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
98.
Old English Grammar
Old English Grammar 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Ingeld and Christ: Heroic Concepts and Values in Old English Christian Poetry (Studies in English Literature, 74)
Ingeld and Christ: Heroic Concepts and Values in Old English Christian Poetry (Studies in English Literature, 74) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Anglo-Saxon Prose
Anglo-Saxon Prose 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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