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Anglo-saxon poetry was circulated orally in a preliterate society, and gathered at last into books over some six centuries before the Norman Conquest ended English independence. Against the odds some of these books survive today. This anthology of prose translations covers most of the surviving poetry, revealing a tradition which is outstanding among early medieval literatures for its sophisticated exploration of the human condition in a mutable, finite, but wonderfully diverse and meaning-filled world. S. A.J Bradley studied Anglo-Saxon at University College, Oxford and has since teached in at King's College, London and the University of York. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1993.