Audio recordings of Old English Prose

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Listen to audio recordings of Old English Prose. Some links may not work on certain browsers. If you are having problems, please try a different browser.

Ælfric's Homily for Mid-Lent Sunday (CH II.12), read by Niamh Kehoe:

Ælfric's Homily, 'The laity require good instruction', read by Emma Nihill Alcorta:

Ælfric's Judges (epilogue on English kings), read by Francis Leneghan :

Ælfric's Life of St Edmund (the wolf and the head), read by Niamh Kehoe:

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS A 878 (Alfred rallies the English against the Vikings), read by Francis Leneghan:

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS A 755 (Cynewulf and Cyneheard), read by Francis Leneghan:

Avenging of the Saviour (Tyrus/Titus' boastful speech), read by Stephen Hopkins:

 

 

How to get to Hedeby (Ohthere and Wulfstan), read by Helen Appleton:

Just and Unjust Rulers (Old English "Orosius"), read by Eleni Ponirakis:

The Legend of the Seven Sleepers (opening), read by Hugh Magennis:

The Legend of the Seven Sleepers (The Suffering of the Martyrs), read by Hugh Magennis:

The Life of St Mary of Egypt, read by Hugh Magennis:

Old English Preface to Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, read by Francis Leneghan:

Old English Bede (Cædmon receives the gift of poetry), read by Mark Atherton:

Old English Heptateuch, Leviticus 26.1-45 ('I am the Lord your God'), read by Francis Leneghan:

On the Nature of God (Old English "Soliloquies"), read by Emma Nihill Alcotra:

Peterborough Chronicle 1127 (The New Abbot), read by Mark Atherton:

Psalm 50 (Prose Psalms), read by Francis Leneghan:

Preface to Old English Prose Guthlac, read by Helen Appleton:

Remedy Wið ælfadle ('against elf-disease') from Leechbook III, read by Irene Tenchini:

The Eyes of the Mind (Old English "Soliloquies"), read by Emma Nihill Alcorta:

Vercelli Homily X (The tree), read by Mark Atherton:

Vercelli Homily X (Ubi sunt), read by Mark Atherton:

Wessex Gospels (Crucifixion Mt.27-35-54), read by Francis Leneghan:

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