Christ III
Christ III is an anonymous Old English religious poem which forms the last part of Christ, a poetic triad found at the beginning of the Exeter Book. Christ III is found on fols. 20b–32a and constitutes lines 867–1664 of Christ in Krapp and Dobbie's Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records edition. The poem is concerned with the Second Coming of Christ (parousia) and the Last Judgment.
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Also known as | Christ C |
Author(s) | Anonymous |
Language | Old English |
Series | Old English Christ triad, along with Christ I and Christ II, constituting lines 867–1664 |
Manuscript(s) | Exeter Book, fos. 20b–32a |
Genre | Religious poem |
Subject | Last Judgment |
Sample
This passage, about fire engulfing the world at Judgement Day, gives a modern English translation of Christ III, lines 993-1013 (in the line-numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records):
Seoþeð swearta leg synne on fordonum, |
The black flame will seethe sins among the corrupted, |
Other Old English eschatological poems
- Blickling Homily nos. 7 and 10
- Judgement Day I
- Judgement Day II
Editions and translations
- Krapp, George Philip, and Dobbie, E. V. K. (eds.) (1936) The Exeter Book. (The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records; 3.) New York: Columbia U. P.
- Bradley, S. A. J. (tr.) (1982) Anglo-Saxon Poetry: an anthology of Old English poems in prose translation. London: Dent
References
- The Exeter Book, ed. by George Philip Krapp and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records: A Collective Edition, 3 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936).
External links
Wikisource has original text related to this article: |
- Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English Literature
- The Old English poems, Christ I-III
- A Modern English translation (PDF), by Charles W. Kennedy. From "In Parentheses".