10th-century poems

Eddic poem

poetic diary written anonymously by the tenth-century Japanese poet Ki no Tsurayuki

thumb|Waltharius Waltharius is a Latin epic poem founded on German popular tradition relating the exploits of the Visigothic hero Walter of Aquitaine. While its subject matter is taken from early medieval Germanic legend, the epic stands firmly in the Latin literary tradition in terms of its form and the stylistic devices used. Thus, its 1456 verses are written in dactylic hexameter (the traditional meter of Latin epic poetry) and the poem includes copious references to (and phrases borrowed from) various Latin epics of antiquity, especially Vergil's Aeneid.

poetry of the Tang dynasty

thumb|right|300px|"Rig in Great-grandfather's Cottage" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood

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Old English poem

right|thumb|200px|Thor goes fishing for Jörmungandr in this picture from an 18th-century [[Icelandic manuscript.]] Húsdrápa (Old Norse: 'House-Lay') is a skaldic poem partially preserved in the Prose Edda where disjoint stanzas of it are quoted. It is attributed to the skald Úlfr Uggason. The poem describes mythological scenes carved on kitchen panels. In the stanzas that have come down to us three such scenes are described.

medieval Latin poem about chess

Þórsdrápa (also Thorsdrapa; Old Norse: 'The Lay of Thor') is a skaldic poem by Eilífr Goðrúnarson, a poet in the service of Jarl Hákon Sigurðarson. The poem is noted for its creative use of kennings and other metaphorical devices, as well as its labyrinthine complexity.

Old English poem about a dialogue of riddles between Solomon, the king of Israel, and Saturn, a prince of the Chaldeans

Sonatorrek ("the irreparable loss of sons") is a skaldic poem in 25 stanzas, that appears in Egil's Saga (written c.a. 1220–1240), an Icelandic saga focusing on the life of skald and viking, Egill Skallagrímsson (ca. 910–990). The work laments the death of two of the poet's sons, Gunnar, who died of a fever, and Böðvarr, who drowned during a storm. In the assessment of Margaret Clunies Ross, Sonatorrek "has probably received, from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, the greatest literary approbation accorded to any single skaldic poem". According to the saga, after E

skaldic poem by Egill Skallagrímsson

poetry written in Song dynasty

Old English poem by Cynewulf about the life and martyrdom of St. Juliana of Nicomedia

probably the oldest poem of the Sigurd cycle