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 and the Last Judgment.
Sample
This passage, about fire engulfing the world at Judgement Day, gives a modern English translation of Christ III, lines 993–1013 :Other Old English eschatological poems
- Blickling Homily nos. 7 and 10
- Judgement Day I
- ''Judgement Day II''
Editions and translations
- Foys, Martin et al. ; poem edited in transcription and digital facsimile editions, with Modern English translation
- Krapp, George Philip, and Dobbie, E. V. K. The Exeter Book. New York: Columbia U. P.
- Bradley, S. A. J. Anglo-Saxon Poetry: an anthology of Old English poems in prose translation. London: Dent