Old English poems

thumb|First lines of "Widsith"

thumb|300px|Detail of Menologium, showing saints and martyrs of December, January and February, painted by John Tokhabi, 11th century [[tetraptych, kept at the Saint Catherine's Monastery.]] A menologium (, pl. menologia), also known by other names, is any collection of information arranged according to the days of a month, usually a set of such collections for all the months of the year. In particular, it is used for ancient Roman farmers' almanacs (); for the untitled Old English poem on the Julian calendar that appears in a manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; for the liturgical books (

portion of an Old English heroic poem, transcribed by George Hickes from a now lost medieval manuscript.

tenth century illustrated manuscript in the collections of the Bodleian Library

Old English poem from the Vercelli Book

Old English poem from the Exeter Book

Old English poem

"Deor" (or "The Lament of Deor") is an Old English poem found on folio 100r–100v of the late-10th-century collection the Exeter Book. The poem consists of a reflection on misfortune by a poet whom the poem is usually thought to name Deor. The poem has no title in the Exeter Book itself; the title has been bestowed by modern editors.

Old English poem

10th‐century Anglo‐Saxon poem

"Waldere" or "Waldhere" is the conventional title given to two Old English fragments, of around 32 and 31 lines, from a lost epic poem, discovered in 1860 by E. C. Werlauff, Librarian, in the Danish Royal Library at Copenhagen, where it is still preserved. The parchment pages had been reused as stiffening in the binding of an Elizabethan prayer book, which had presumably come to Europe following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England in the 16th century.

Old English poem, probably 8-9th century

literary form with examples in Old English, Old Norse, and Icelandic

Old English poem

Old English poem

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

anonymous Old English poem

Old English poem, which tells the story of St. Andrew the Apostle

thumb|Wittich (in red) dishonourably battles two against one with Heime to defeat Alphart. Witege, Witige or Wittich (; Gotho-) or Vidrik "Vidga" Verlandsson ( + Viðga or Videke + Verlandsson, Vallandsson, or Villandsson) is a character in several Germanic heroic legends, poems about Dietrich von Bern, and later Scandinavian ballads.

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