IBeowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the ood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among he greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many ther treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: hronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above ll superb poems. Here is a word picture of a people who ame to these islands as pagans and yet within two hundred ears had become Christians, to such effect that England was he centre of missionary endeavour and, for a time, the eart of European civilization.