Beowulf and other Old English poems /
Overview: The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina Stará angličtina |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2011]
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| Edice: | Middle Ages series.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhdd8 |
Obsah:
- On translating Old English poetry
- Beowulf
- The battle of Maldon
- Deor
- The wanderer
- The seafarer
- The wife's lament
- Wulf and Eadwacer
- Selected Exeter Book riddles
- Maxims II (Cotton maxims)
- Charms
- The fortunes of men
- Cædmon's hymn
- Physiologus: panther and whale
- Vainglory
- Two advent lyrics
- The dream of the rood
- Appendix A: digressions
- battles, feuds, and family strife in Beowulf
- Appendix B: Genealogies in Beowulf
- Appendix C: two Scandinavian analogues of Beowulf
- Appendix D: Possible riddle solutions.