Language & Literature

ISBN: 9780674053199
Published by : Harvard University Press
The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. Three of them survive as sequential epics in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The first, the Old English Genesis, r... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521519472
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This new introduction to Anglo-Saxon literature draws on the latest research to set the literature firmly in its cultural context, and includes material on the whole range of literary texts, Latin as well as Old English. Chapters survey the de... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521734653
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This new introduction to Anglo-Saxon literature draws on the latest research to set the literature firmly in its cultural context, and includes material on the whole range of literary texts, Latin as well as Old English. Chapters survey the de... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906716189
Published by : Dunedin Academic Press
Nornir or norns were a group of female supernatural beings closely related to ideas about fate in Old Norse tradition. Karen Bek-Pedersen provides a thorough understanding of the role played by norns and other beings like them in the relevant s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843842712
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The rich and compelling corpus of Old Norse poetry is one of the most important and influential areas of medieval European literature. What is less well known, however, is the quantity of the material which can be attributed to women skalds. Th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781442611290
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Designed as an undergraduate textbook, this clear introduction guides the reader through the basics of Old English metre. Terasawa first concentrates on the building blocks of alliteration and rhythm, before moving on to more complex subjects ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780268029807
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Through systematic exploration of the periods verbal and material culture as complementary art forms, Garner argues that in Anglo-Saxon England the arts of poetry and building emerged from the same cultural matrix. Not only did Anglo-Saxon buil... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409400103
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
This monograph provides an in-depth study into the issue of vernacular names in Old English documents. While modern scholars have generally felt no difficulty in distinguishing male from female names, this book asks how far the Anglo-Saxons the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781408247709
Published by : Addison Wesley Longman
Ranging from the Old English epic Beowulf through to the Anglo-Norman texts which heralded the transition to Middle English, thematically organised chapters present elegies, eulogies, laments and riddles, poems of devotion, sagas and histories... .... Learn More