Heroic poem · c. 10th century

Judith (Old English)

Old English text

by Anonymous (Old English)

A retelling, in the Nowell Codex alongside Beowulf, of the apocryphal Book of Judith, in the original Old English: the widow Judith beheads the drunken Assyrian general Holofernes and delivers her people, recast in the heroic idiom of Old English verse.

Contents · 3 parts

• Lines 1–121about 120 lines
• Lines 122–274about 150 lines
• Lines 275–34975 lines

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