Audio recordings of Old English Prose

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Ælfric's Life of St Martin (Martin's Character), read by Tom Revell:

Ælfric's Life of St Martin (Martin's Devotion), read by Tom Revell:

Ælfric's Maccabees (Visible and Invisible Enemies), read by Tom Revell:

Ælfric's Maccabees (The Seven Sons), read by Tom Revell:

Ælfric's Maccabees (The Just War), read by Tom Revell:

Ælfric's Maccabees (The Death of Alexander), read by Tom Revell:

Ælfric's Maccabees (Judas Maccabeus inspires the Jews), read by Tom Revell:

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:

 

 

Bazire-Cross Homily IX (Three Utterances of the Soul), read by Rachel A. Burns:

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

Old English "Orosius" (Just and Unjust Rulers), 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:

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

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

Prose Psalms (Psalm 50), 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:

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

Vercelli Homily II (The Judgement of the Damned), read by Rachel A. Burns:

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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