Andreas : an edition / Richard North and Michael D.J. Bintley.
This is the first edition of Andreas for 55 years, also the first to present the Anglo-Saxon, or rather Old English, text with a parallel Modern English poetic translation. The book aim not only to provide both students and scholars with an up-to-date text and introduction and notes, but also to rec...
Uniform Title: | Exeter medieval texts and studies.
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Language: | English English, Old (ca. 450-1100) |
Language of the Original: |
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) |
Language and/or Writing System: |
Poem in modern English and Old English. |
Published: |
Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2016.
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Series: | Exeter medieval texts and studies.
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Physical Description: | xiv, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Poem and its Analogues
- 2. Manuscript
- 3. Language and Dialect
- Phonology
- Vocabulary
- Linguistic conclusion
- 4. Metre and Prosody
- 5. Poetic Style
- Poetic allusions to Cynewulf
- Poetic allusions to Beowulf
- 6. Mermedonia
- Boundaries and meeting places
- Burial mounds
- Pagan sites and Christian churches
- Roman spolia and the Mermedonian prison
- Pathways in Andreas
- Mermedonia as a Roman city
- Mermedonia as a WS burh
- Summary
- 7. Date and Authorship
- Anti-Danish animus
- WS royal patronage
- Alfred's church of St Andrew
- Alfred's ẁealth' and ẁisdom'
- Note on the Text and Translation
- ANDREAS
- List of Emendations
- Commentary.