These and many other treasures are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all superb poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these islands as pagans and yet within two hundred years had becomes Christians, to such effect that England was the centre of missionary endeavour and, for a time, the heart of European civilization.
Kevin Crossley-Holland places poems and prose in context with his skillful interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon world; his translations have been widely acclaimed and of Beowulf the poet Charles Causely has written, 'the poem has at last found its translator.'
