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Audio recordings of Old English Prose
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Ælfric's Homily for Mid-Lent Sunday, Audio Excerpt, read by Niamh Kehoe
Ælfric's Homily: The Laity Require Good Instruction: Audio Excerpt, read by Emma Nihill-Alcorta
Ælfric's "Life of Edmund": Audio Excerpt (The Wolf and the Head), read by Niamh Kehoe
Ælfric's "Maccabees": Audio Excerpt (The Death of Alexander), read by Tom Revell
Ælfric's "Maccabees": Audio Excerpt (Visible and Invisible Enemies), read by Tom Revell
Ælfric's Maccabees - Audio Excerpt (The Just War), read by Tom Revell
Ælfric's "Maccabees": Audio Excerpt (Judas Maccabeus inspires the Jews), read by Tom Revell
Ælfric's "Maccabees": Audio Excerpt (The Seven Sons), read by Tom Revell
Bazire-Cross IX Audio Excerpt (Three Utterances of the Soul), read by Rachel A. Burns
Leechbook III - Audio Excerpt (against elf-disease), read by Irene Tenchini
The Lord's Prayer (Opening), read by Christine Rauer, Daniel Wale, Eilidh Jordan, Ethan Cartwright
The Old English "Avenging of the Saviour" Audio Excerpt (Tyrus Titus' boastful speech), read by Stephen Hopkins
The Old English "Bede" Audio Excerpt (Cædmon receives the gift of poetry), read by Mark Atherton
Ohthere and Wulfstan Audio Excerpt (How to get to Hedeby), read by Helen Appleton
The Old English Heptateuch Audio Excerpt (Ælfric's Judges; epilogue on English kings), read by Francis Leneghan
The Old English Heptateuch Audio Excerpt (Leviticus 26.41–45), read by Francis Leneghan
The Old English "Legend of the Seven Sleepers" Audio Excerpt (The Suffering of the Martyrs), read by Hugh Magennis
The Old English "Legend of the Seven Sleepers" Audio Excerpt (Opening), read by Hugh Magennis
The Old English Prose "Life of St Guthlac" Audio Excerpt (Preface), read by Helen Appleton
Old English "Lives of St Martin" Audio Excerpt (Martin's Devotion), read by Tom Revell
Old English "Lives of St Martin" Audio Excerpt (The character of Martin), read by Tom Revell
The Old English "Life of St Mary of Egypt" Audio Excerpt (Zosimus encounters Mary), read by Hugh Magennis
The Old English Martyrology, Audio Excerpts, read by Christine Rauer and Kate Wilcox
The Old English "Soliloquies" Audio Excerpt (On the Nature of the Soul), read by Emma Nihill-Alcorta
The Old English "Soliloquies" Audio Excerpt (The Ship of the Soul), read by Emma Nihill-Alcorta
The Penitence of Jamnes and Mambres: Audio, read by Stephen Hopkins
Peterborough Chronicle 1127 (The New Abbot) Audio Excerpt, read by Mark Atherton
Psalm Glosses, read by Christine Rauer, Daniel Wale and Ethan Cartwright
The "Prose Psalms" Audio (Psalm 50), read by Francis Leneghan
Vercelli II Audio Excerpt (Judgement of the Damned), read by Rachel A. Burns
Vercelli Homily X Audio Excerpt (The Tree), read by Mark Atherton
The Wessex Gospels Audio Excerpt (Mt.27 35-54), read by Francis Leneghan
The Wonders of the East - Audio Excerpt (Women with Boar's Tusks), read by Asa Simon Mittman
The Wonders of the East - Audio Excerpt (Donestre), read by Asa Simon Mittman
