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The Bible is the sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity, and the reference edition presents the King James Version of 1611, the most influential translation in English. It is a library rather than a single book.
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“And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of ⌈His⌉ holy ones To execute judgement upon all,”
“Almighty God was He, Strong and stern of mind; He stied on the gallows high, Bold in sight of many, for man He would redeem.”
“A rood was I upreared; I raised the mighty King, The Lord of Heaven; I durst not bend me.”
“There wept all creation, Bewailed the King's death; Christ was on the cross.”
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The Book of Enoch, usually called 1 Enoch, is a collection of five Jewish apocalyptic books gathered under the name of Enoch, the patriarch of Genesis 5 who walked with God and was not, for God took him. Written in stages during the Second Temple period, it presents Enoch as a righteous scribe who is shown the secrets of heaven, earth and the coming judgment and writes them down for his son Methuselah and for a remote generation.
The Dream of the Rood is the oldest dream-vision poem in English and one of the great devotional poems of the early Middle Ages. A sleepless narrator, at midnight while others rest, sees a vast tree rising into the sky, wrapped in light and set with gold and jewels.
Beowulf remembers a northern heroic world through three combats that join glory to mortality. Hrothgar's hall Heorot, built as a center of gift-giving and song, becomes a place of terror when Grendel attacks the sleeping retainers.
The Song of Roland transforms a historical rearguard action in Charlemagne's Spanish campaign into a sacred and feudal epic of loyalty, betrayal, martyrdom, and judgment. The plot turns on Ganelon's resentment.
The Nibelungenlied is a medieval German epic of courtship, deception, insult and catastrophic revenge. Its first half centers on Siegfried, prince of Xanten, who comes to Worms hoping to win Kriemhild, sister of the Burgundian kings Gunther, Gernot and Giselher.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight opens at Arthur's Christmas court, where a green stranger interrupts the feast with a beheading game. Gawain accepts the challenge, cuts off the Green Knight's head, and must seek the Green Chapel a year later to receive the return blow.