From Old English to Old Norse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Old English to Old Norse write by John Frankis. This book was released on 2016-01-31. From Old English to Old Norse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study focusses upon the Old Norse version of Ælfric's Old English homily De falsis diis - the most substantial of a family of Old Norse-Icelandic texts, of unclear provenance, but which derive in varying degrees from Old English originals. To throw fresh light upon the translation's origins, a range of other Old Norse and Old English texts are considered. While the known facts of Ælfrician manuscript circulation and adaptation are hard to reconcile with an Icelandic origin, traces of later circulation in Norway and Iceland are explored. The study includes a parallel-text Old English-Old Norse edition of De falsis diis, with facing modern English translations, to aid detailed comparison.
Language and History in Viking Age England
Language and History in Viking Age England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and History in Viking Age England write by Matthew Townend. This book was released on 2002. Language and History in Viking Age England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first ever book-length study for the nature and significance of the linguistic contact between speakers of Old Norse and Old English in Viking Age England. It investigates in a wide-ranging and systematic fashion a foundational but under-considered factor in the history and culture of the Vikings in England. The subject is important for late Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age history; for language and literature in the late Anglo-Saxon period; and for the history and development of the English language. The work's primary focus is on Anglo-Norse language contact, with a particular emphasis on the question of possible mutual intelligibility between speakers of the two languages; but since language contact is an emphatically sociolinguistic phenomenon, the work's methodology combines linguistic, literary and historical approaches, and draws for its evidence on texts in Old English, Old Norse and Anglo-Latin, and other forms of linguistic and onomastic material
Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry
Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry write by Thomas Birkett. This book was released on 2017-03-27. Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Saxon runic script had already become the preserve of antiquarians at the time the majority of Old English poetry was written down, and the Icelanders recording the mythology associated with the script were at some remove from the centres of runic practice in medieval Scandinavia. Both literary cultures thus inherited knowledge of the runic system and the traditions associated with it, but viewed this literate past from the vantage point of a developed manuscript culture. There has, as yet, been no comprehensive study of poetic responses to this scriptural heritage, which include episodes in such canonical texts as Beowulf, the Old English riddles and the poems of the Poetic Edda. By analysing the inflection of the script through shared literary traditions, this study enhances our understanding of the burgeoning of literary self-awareness in early medieval vernacular poetry and the construction of cultural memory, and furthers our understanding of the relationship between Anglo-Saxon and Norse textual cultures. The introduction sets out in detail the rationale for examining runes in poetry as a literary motif and surveys the relevant critical debates. The body of the volume is comprised of five linked case studies of runes in poetry, viewing these representations through the paradigm of scriptural reconstruction and the validation of contemporary literary, historical and religious sensibilities.
Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon
Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon write by Megan E. Hartman. This book was released on 2020-10-26. Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the development of hypermetric verse in Old English and compares it to the cognate traditions of Old Norse and Old Saxon. The study illustrates the inherent flexibility of the hypermetric line and shows how poets were able to manipulate this flexibility in different contexts for different practical and rhetorical purposes. This mode of analysis is therefore able to show what degree of control the poets had over the traditional alliterative line, what effects they were able to produce with various stylistic choices, and how attention to poetic style can aid in literary analysis.
Old English and its Closest Relatives
Old English and its Closest Relatives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old English and its Closest Relatives write by Orrin W. Robinson. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Old English and its Closest Relatives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This accessible introductory reference source surveys the linguistic and cultural background of the earliest known Germanic languages and examines their similarities and differences. The Languages covered include:Gothic Old Norse Old SaxonOld English Old Low Franconian Old High German Written in a lively style, each chapter opens with a brief cultural history of the people who used the language, followed by selected authentic and translated texts and an examination of particular areas including grammar, pronunciation, lexis, dialect variation and borrowing, textual transmission, analogy and drift.
