The Anglo Saxons and their gods (still) among us [PDF]
When Christian missionaries arrived in Canterbury in 597AD, they brought with them a new religion that sought to appropriate certain Saxon traditions before eradicating them completely: some of these traditions were discussed by the Venerable Bede. Saxon
Mackley, J S
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The Emergence and Transformation of Medieval Cumbria [PDF]
, 2014 This is the accepted manuscript. The final version's available from Edinburgh University Press at http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/shr.2014.0216. There has long been uncertainty about the relationship between the polities known as Strathclyde
Edmonds, Fiona
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Lasse Christian Arboe Sonne: Thor-kult i vikingtiden. Historiske studier i vikingetidens religion
Collegium Medievale, 2015 Denne boka om kulten av guden Tor i vikingtida er ei revidert utgåve av ei PhD-avhandling som Lasse Christian Arboe Sonne forsvarte ved Københavns Universitet våren 2011.
Else Mundal
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The evolution of Old and Middle English texts: linguistic form and practices of literacy [PDF]
, 2016 The late, great paleographer Malcolm Parkes used to opine that 'the greatest mistake a paleographer makes is to forget the nature of the text being copied'. The axiom is a powerful one that has relevance not simply for the sub-discipline of paleography
Smith, Jeremy
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A critical approach to social function in the "Preface to the pastoral care" [PDF]
, 2008 This paper presents a functional analysis of King Alfred’s Preface to the Pastoral Care premised on the examination of the linguistic realization of the different individuals involved in the text as both a centre of structure and action.
Fernández Martínez, Dolores
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Religion, Alfar and Dvergar [PDF]
, 2014 En este artículo apuntamos a explorar la conexión entre dos tipos de entidades míticas colectivas, los álfar y los dvergar. Ponderamos críticamente la fiabilidad de las distintas fuentes y analizamos el modo en que esos seres son presentados en algunos ...
Barreiro, Santiago Francisco
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The Land of Mermedonia in the Old English Andreas [PDF]
, 2018 In the Old English poem Andreas, God sends St. Andrew on a mission of mercy to the land of the cannibalistic Mermedonians. Compared to its Greek, Latin, and Old English prose analogues, Andreas elaborates the monstrous customs of the Mermedonians and the
Bolintineanu, Alexandra
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Tracing the origins of ESP in Old English Ælfric's Colloquy and Cosmology
Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015 The present paper will analyse two different pieces by Ælfric, perhaps one of the leading prose-writers of the Old English period. These are, namely, his Cosmology –which may have been completed towards the year 993 (Burnley, 1992)–, and his Colloquy on ...
María Ángeles Ruiz Moneva
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Alfred o Grande e a linhagem sagrada de Wessex : a construção de um mito de origem na Inglaterra anglo-saxônica [PDF]
, 2011 No final do século IX, as ações tomadas pelo rei Alfred, o Grande, foram decisivas para a sobrevivência da Inglaterra anglo-saxônica contra os vikings. Seu resgate cultural iria mudar a sociedade anglo-saxônica, reforçando as defesas do reino, a política
Medeiros, Elton O. S.
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パリ詩篇（フランス国立図書館所蔵の写本 Fonds latin, 8824）に 収録されている古英語で書かれた散文と韻文による詩篇の翻訳について [PDF]
, 2015 ウェセックスのアルフレッド王の作とされる古英語散文の詩篇と10世紀に書かれた作者不詳の韻文の詩編を比較し、どのような方法で翻訳が行われているのか、詩篇の解釈にどれほど準拠しているのか、解釈の焦点をどこに合わせているのか、について論じる ...
Patrick P O’Neill
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