Audio recordings of Old English Prose
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Ælfric's Life of St Martin (Martin's Character), read by Tom Revell:
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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:
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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: