Modthryth is a reconstructed name for a character who figures as the queen of King Offa in which Old English epic poem?
Beowulf Beowulf ( ] ) is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature. A date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the only certain dating pertains to the manuscript, which was produced between 975 and 1025. The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, most likely from the Kingdom of Northumbria, referred to by scholars as the ""Beowulf" poet".
Sermo Lupi ad Anglos The Sermo Lupi ad Anglos ('The Sermon of the Wolf to the English') is the title given to a homily composed in England between 1010-1016 by Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York (died 1023), who commonly styled himself "Lupus", or 'wolf' after the first element in his name ["wulf-stan" = 'wolf-stone']. Though the title is Latin, the work itself is written in Old English. The "Sermo Lupi" is Wulfstan's most well-known work. In it, he blames a lack of moral discipline amongst his fellow English as the source of God's anger against the English, which has taken the shape of thirty years of Viking raids against England. Wulfstan exhorts the English to behave in a manner more pleasing to God, and specifically to live according to the laws of the Church and of the king. The "Sermo Lupi" is noted for its rhetorical achievements, and is considered to represent the height of Wulfstan's skill as a homilist and rhetor. The text of the "Sermo Lupi" has been critically edited many times, most recently by Dorothy Bethurum. The work contains one of several mentions of Old English "wælcyrian", a term cognate to the Old Norse "valkyrjur"—valkyries.