Anglo-Saxon Aloud

A daily reading of the entire Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records,which includes all poems written in Old English. By Michael D. C. Drout, Prentice Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College, Norton, MA.

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Psalm 50, lines 72-157 [end]

Posted by mdrout on 1st February 2008

This is the second half of the translation/adaptation of Psalm 50.

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Psalm 50, lines 1-71

Posted by mdrout on 31st January 2008

After an introduction that explains the psalm as an expression of regret for his sin against Uriah and Bathsheba. Then we find the by-now-familiar pattern of a part of the psalm being given in Latin followed by an explication in Anglo-Saxon verse.

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