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Elene
Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon poetry
Anglo-Saxon poetry
Medieval English prose for women
Pearl
Complete Works of the Gawain Poet
Beowulf
The complete works of the Gawain-poet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
Piers Plowman
The earliest English poems
Brut
Old and Middle English
Beowulf
Translations of Chaucer and Virgil
The Complete works of the Pearl poet
Fifteenth century prose and verse
The vision of Piers the Plowman
York mystery plays
The chief Middle English poets
The Battle of Maldon
The Canterbury Tales
Medieval English verse and prose in modernized versions
Beowulf
Brut
The Exeter book
Widsith
A readable Beowulf
A legend of holy women
The Gawain poet
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