The calendar for the second half of the Church year is versified in the second half of the poem.
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This poem works through the Church calendar, mentioning seasons and major festal days of the year. Podcast: Play in new window | Download The dialogue of Solomon and Saturn concludes. Podcast: Play in new window | Download The dialogue between Solomon and Saturn continues. Podcast: Play in new window | Download The dialogue between Solomon and Saturn continues. The relationship between this section of the poem and the rest is confusion and complicated and will need more explanation than I can give tonight. Podcast: Play in new window | Download The dialogue between Solomon and Saturn continues. The poem uses runes to spell out (mostly) “Pater Noster” in the text of the poem, which discusses how the Pater Noster can serve as a weapon. Podcast: Play in new window | Download This poem is a dialogue between Saturn, a wise Chaldean (who represents pagan wisdom) and King Solomon (who represents Christian wisdom). Podcast: Play in new window | Download Anglo-Saxon Aloud will be on hiatus for a couple of days until I get over a little case of laryngitis. (I still may try to sing this to the tune of “A, You’re Adorable,” because it’s a poem of a least a distantly related type). Each letter of the runic alphabet is given a sentence that describes what the rune means (each rune has a name like “wyn” [joy] as well as a phonetic value). Podcast: Play in new window | Download This poem describes the city of Durham and all the wonderful things therein, including the head of Oswald. Podcast: Play in new window | Download This poem describes the death of Edward the Confessor (1065). Podcast: Play in new window | Download This poem describes how in 1036 the Atheling Alfred was captured by Godwine, blinded, and turned over to the monks at Ely. Podcast: Play in new window | Download The entry for 975 covers all the important things that happened that year, including the death of King Edgar, greatest supporter of the Benedictine Reform. And there was a comet. And a famine. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Part of the 973 entry, this praise poem describes Edgar’s second (and somewhat mysterious) “Imperial” coronation at Bath. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Part 0f the entry f0r 942, the poem describes how King Edmund freed the five buroughs of Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, Stamford and Derby from the Danelaw. Podcast: Play in new window | Download |
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