Sid Bradley

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Professor Sid (S A J) Bradley, academic, author and specialist in Anglo-Saxon literature.

In his best known publication, Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Bradley has translated into modern English prose virtually the entire corpus of extant Anglo-Saxon poetry.

Bradley studied Anglo-Saxon at University College, Oxford and since taught it at King's College, London then in the University of York where he eventually became a Professor of English and Related Literature. His publications have also touched on medieval Danish historiography, Danish ballads, English medieval literature, iconography and literature in the English post-Conquest period, archaeology, 17th-century Danish and English political tracts, and English 18th-century bawdy songs.

[edit] Publications

Sid Bradley's books include:

  • Anglo-Saxon Poetry (an anthology of Old English poems) (Everyman).
  • Grundtvig in International Context: Studies in the Creativity of Interaction by A.M. Allchin (Editor), S.A.J. Bradley (Editor), N.A. Hjelm (Editor), J.H. Schjorring (Editor).
  • Source-Texts for a Life of N.F.S. Grundtvig: Grundtvig's Memoirs and Memoirs of Grundtvig (translator).