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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Exeter medieval texts and studies.
Other Authors: North, Richard, 1961- (Translator, Editor)
Bintley, Michael D. J. (Translator, Editor)
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.
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.