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‘Hreran mid hondum hrimcealde sæ’: On verb attraction in Old English

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2016
This paper deals with a phenomenon in Old English syntax labelled ‘verb attraction’. In an Old English clause with two verbs, such as an auxiliary verb and the following nonfinite verb, or an object-control verb such as hatan ‘to command’ plus the ...
Nils-Lennart Johannesson
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Beowulf 1563a and Blissian Metrics

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
A. J. Bliss, in his authoritative and influential monograph on The Metre of Beowulf (1967), analysed l. 1563a, hē ġefēng þā fetelhilt, as a member of his group (4) of verses beginning with finite verbs.
Rafael Pascual
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Where You End and I Begin : Notes on Subjectivity and Ethics in the Translation of Poetry

, 2017
What can translation teach us about poetry and poetics? To what extent is a lyric constellation portable, and to what extent is it embedded in a particular culture or language? How much of a foreign syntax can be replicated before things break down? What
LINGENFELTER, Andrea
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'cultivated, / Wild, exotic': Nationalism and Internationalism in the Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim [PDF]

, 2019
Born in multicultural Malacca during British rule, educated there and later in Kuala Lumpur and Boston, a long-time resident of the USA and a visiting professor to many countries, Shirley Geok-lin Lim seems a transnational writer par excellence.
Haskell, Dennis
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A Constructionist and Corpus-Based Approach to Formulas in Old English Poetry

Languages
This paper explores a constructionist and corpus-based approach to Old English formulaic language through an analysis of the “maþelode system” of speech introductions.
Riccardo Ginevra, Erica Biagetti, Luca Brigada Villa, Martina Giarda   +3 more
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Tolkien, J. R. R. 2023. The Battle of Maldon Together with the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth. Edited by Peter Grybauskas. London: Harper Collins. Pp. 188. ISBN 9780008465827.

SELIM
Book review of Tolkien, J. R. R. 2023. The Battle of Maldon Together with the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth. Edited by Peter Grybauskas. London: Harper Collins. Pp. 188. ISBN 9780008465827.
Rafael J. Pascual
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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The Grendelkin and the Politics of Succession at Heorot: The Significance of Monsters in Beowulf

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2018
The article considers the significance of the Grendelkin as monsters, bringing to attention the Isidorian understanding of the monster as a sign, portent, and admonition.
Olesiejko Jacek
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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
wiley   +1 more source