The Anglo-Saxon poem Genesis, from the Junius Manuscript, lines 1-46.
Here are the opening lines of Genesis, the first poem in the Junius Manuscript. My plan is to post a podcast of between 40 and 100 lines of Old English poetry read aloud each weekday, followed, perhaps, by a lecture on the poem as each poem is finished. With a little luck, we can work our way through the entire Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records in a little over a year.
Lines 1-46 tell how God ruled the realm of heaven with the “guardians of souls.” But the leader of angels begins to become prideful and seeks to have a throne in the northern part of heaven. So God becomes angry and fashions a fiery prison for Satan.
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