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Table of Contents
Readings: 1 Here Edward was consecrated as king 2 A king must rule a kingdom 3 Say what I am called 4 Here in this year 5 About the four seasons 6 I saw in a dream 7 King Cnut greets his archbishops 8 He promised her the land at Orleton 9 I seek my brothers, where they are keeping their herds 10 These are the bounds of the pasture at Hazelhurst 11 Here is declared in this document 12 I saw a creature travel on the wave 13 And they put him into the waterless well 14 The boy is not here 15 I always wanted to convert to the monastic life 16 It happened one night 17 And bishop Aethelnoth travelled to Rome 18 Archbishop Wulfstan greets king Cnut 19 How Wynflaed summoned her witnesses 20 Act like thegns, and deliver my message to the assembly
Author Biography
Dr Mark Atherton is Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Regent's Park College, Oxford University. A trained teacher, he has taught in Germany and Austria and has published widely in medieval studies and linguistics.
