Editions and
Translations
For a survey of previous editions,
see C. Rauer, ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013), pp. 25-30, and G. Kotzor, ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium, 2 vols., Abhandlungen
der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich,
1981), I, 3-8 and 12-23. For early modern signs of interest in the text, see
also G. Kotzor, ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium, I, 9-12.
Most recent edition
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013)
Previous editions and reprints
- Cockayne, O., ed., The Shrine: A Collection
of Occasional Papers on Dry Subjects (London, 1864-70) [early edition
of MSS A, B, C (pp. 46-156) and D (pp. 29-33)]
- Sweet, H., ed., The Oldest English Texts,
Early English Text Society os 83 (London, 1885), pp. 177-8 [early edition
of MS A; on Sweet's work, see also Kotzor, ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium, I, 14-15]
- Herzfeld, G., ed., An Old English Martyrology,
Early English Text Society os 116 (London, 1900), pp. 2-223; Addenda and
Corrigenda pp. 225-40 [first critical edition; collates MSS A, B, C and
D; still in print]
- Craigie, W. A., ed., Easy Readings in
Anglo-Saxon (Edinburgh, 1923) [sections 109 (Alban), 100
(Columba of Iona), 21 (Fursa), 37 (Chad), 110 (Æthelthryth),
226 (Hild), 40 (Eastorwine), 49 (Cuthbert), 66 (Æthelwald),
80 (Eadberht), 68 (Wilfrid), 196 (Ceolfrith), 50
(The Fourth Day of Creation), 52 (The Fifth Day of Creation), 53
(The Sixth Day of Creation), 111a (Summer Solstice), 78 (Rogations
Days, incomplete), 79 (Ascension of Christ)]
- Funke O. and K. Jost, ed., An Old English
Reader, Bibliotheca Anglicana 1 (Bern, 1942), pp. 23-5 [sections 109
(Alban) and 226 (Hild)]
- Sisam, C., An Early Fragment of the
Old English Martyrology', Review of English Studies ns
4 (1953), 209-20, at 217-20 [edition of E]
- Grant, R. J. S., MS. C.C.C.C. 41, with
Special Regard to the B-Version of the Old English Bede' (diss., Cambridge,
1971), pp. 572-6 [transcript of MS D]
- Kotzor, G., St Patrick in the Old
English Martyrology: On a Lost Leaf of MS. C.C.C.C. 196', Notes
and Queries 21 (1974), 86-7 [edition of MS C*]
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium, 2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), II, 1-266 [see also his concordance of editions, II, 379-89]
- Marsden, R., The Cambridge Old English Reader (Cambridge, 2004), pp. 178-80 [section 3 (Eugenia)]
- Hasenfratz, R. and T. Jambeck, Reading Old English: A Primer and First Reader, rev edn (Morgantown, 2011), p. 468 [section 110 Æthelthryth]
Translations
- Herzfeld, G., ed., An Old English Martyrology,
Early English Text Society os 116 (London, 1900) [complete
translation of his accompanying edition, neither of which is quite reliable]
- Swanton, M., trans., Anglo-Saxon Prose,
2nd edn (London, 1993), pp. 70-87 [brief introduction to
the text, with translations of the following passages: 1 The Birth
of Christ; 3 Eugenia; 8a The Beginning of January; 9
The Octave of Christ and Mary; 12 Epiphany; 15 Pega; 21
Fursa; 36b The Beginning of March; 37 Chad; 39 Perpetua,
Felicity; 40 Eosterwine; 46 The Second Day of Creation; 50
The Fourth Day of Creation; 52 The Fifth Day of Creation; 53
The Sixth Day of Creation; 55 The Seventh Day of Creation; 56/56a
Annunciation Day, Crucifixion; 57 Christ's Descent into Hell; 58
Resurrection; 58a The End of March; 58b The Beginning of April;
59 Agape, Chionia and Irene; 63 Guthlac; 73/73a Christopher,
The End of April; 73b The Beginning of May; 77 Discovery of
the Holy Cross; 80 Eadberht; 82 Discovery of St Michael's Church;
83 Victor Maurus; 83a The Beginning of Summer; 94b The
Beginning of June; 110 Æthelthryth; 111a Summer Solstice;
139b The Beginning of August; 155 Cassian; 171 Aidan; 171a
The End of August; 171b The Beginning of September; 203 Dionysius,
Rusticus, Eleutherius; 217b The Beginning of November; 232 Chrysanthus,
Daria; 233a The End of November; 233b The Beginning of December;
238 Thomas]
- Magennis, H., The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge, 2011) [translations of section 3 Eugenia and 30 Agnes]
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013) [complete translation]
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