Language & Literature

ISBN: 9780812211290
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Craig Williamson offers a new translation into modern English poetry of the 91 riddles compiled in the Exeter Book. He includes a substantial introduction which explores the genre of the Old-English riddle and their popularity and role in Anglo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780812243451
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the myst... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198111825
Published by : Oxford University Press
This volume presents four of the most intricate and fascinating mythological poems of the Poetic Edda - Havamal, Hymiskvida, Grimnismal and Grottasongr. The texts are accompanied by a facing English translation, as well as extensi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781403991287
Published by : Palgrave
Designed with students in mind, this clearly written and set out volume provides a chronological history of Beowulf criticism, from the survival and transmission of the manuscript to the diverse set of theoretical approaches advocated by curren... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781403991294
Published by : Palgrave
Designed with students in mind, this clearly written and set out volume provides a chronological history of Beowulf criticism, from the survival and transmission of the manuscript to the diverse set of theoretical approaches advocated by curren... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674052956
Published by : Harvard University Press
Part of the new Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library , this volume contains the Old English text and a parallel translation of Beowulf, contextualised alongside the other verse and prose works also contained in its sole surviving manuscript: The Pas... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521514019
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521735209
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788776745325
Published by : University Press of South Denmark
These essays reflect on the often complex manuscript traditions which lay behind the apparently uncomplicated modern editions of the better-known Icelandic sagas, both considering the relationships between differing manuscripts, and the process... .... Learn More