title: The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  Kevin Crossley-Holland 
description: <br>"A very pleasant anthology which presents the most important texts from the Anglo-Saxon period in good modern English translations....The reflections are wonderful and invite every reader to plunge into the world of pre-conquest England. It is a hndy treasure which students will cherish."--A. Classen, <em>University of Arizona</em>
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  PENGUIN BOOKS
  
  
  THE PENGUIN BOOK OF NORSE MYTHS
  
  
  Kevin Crossley-Holland was educated at Bryanston School and St Edmund Hall,
  Oxford. He was Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds from 1969
  to 1971, editorial director of Victor Gollancz (1972–7) and Lecturer in Anglo-
  Saxon Literature and Culture for the Tufts University London program, from its
  inception in 1967 until 1978. He has recently returned from Minnesota, where
  he was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at St Olaf College (1990) and Endowed Chair
  in the Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of St Thomas (1991–5).
  
  
  His translations of Old English poetry are brought together in _The Anglo-
  Saxon World_ (1982), and he has also translated _The Exeter Book Riddles_ for
  Penguin Classics (revised edition, 1993). His publications include six volumes
  of poetry, the most recent being _The Language of Yes_ (1996), and two
  anthologies: _The Oxford Book of Travel Verse_ (1986) and _Folk Tales of the
  British Isles_ (1986). 