Consequences of Job in Anglo-Saxon England

Part I: Job in Anglo-Saxon Literature

1. Ælfric's Homily on Job
2. The Phoenix Poem
3. Cynewulf's Christ II

Part II: Finding Job in Unexpected Places

1. Anglo-Saxon Charters
2. Charm Against Theft CCCC 190, p.130
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3. The Red Book of Darley CCCC 422, p.471
4. Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Durham Hymnal
5. Dictionary of Old English - "Job"

Gyf feoh sy underfangen: Gyf hit sy hors sing on his feteran oððe on his bridele. Gyf hit sy oðer feoh sing on þæt fotspor and ontend .iii. candela and dryp on þæt hofrec þæt wex þriwa. Ne mæg hit þe nan man forhelan.

Gif hit sy innorf: Sing þonne on feower healfe pæs huses and æne on middan: Crux christi reducat. Crux christi per furtum periit inuenta est. abraham tibi semitas uias montes concludat iob et flumina ad iudicii ligatum perducat.

Judeas Crist ahengan þæt heom com to wite swa strangan gedydan heom dæda þa wyrrestan hy þæt drofe on guldon hælan hit heom to hearme micclum for þam hi hyt forhelan ne mihtan.

(Cambridge, MS Corpus Christi College 190, p. 130.)