This is a translation of the first nineteen lines of the Old English poem The Seafarer; I chose this section as it forms a fairly coherent whole but still gives a strong sense of the atmosphere of the poem.
This is a novel, a murder mystery set in Northumbria around the time of the arrival of Christianity. It's loosely based on the history of Escomb church in Durham. I wrote it a long time ago; I don't know about its quality, but it was the fruit of a…