Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
SELIMThe Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf exists in numerous translations into prose and verse of various forms and styles. While some translators use accentual metre and alliteration to evoke the form of the original, few attempt to reproduce its metre and ...
Elliot Vale
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Inflectional Variation in the Old English Participle. A Corpus-based Analysis
Journal of English Studies, 2018 This article deals with the coexistence of verbal and adjectival inflection in the Old English past participle. Its aim is to assess the degree of variation in the inflection of the participle so as to determine whether or not the change starts in the ...
Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
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Dominion and Stewardship: Unpacking Environmental Consciousness in Some Old English Saints’ Lives
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, 2020 This article explores how ideas of environmental consciousness are explored within two Old English prose versions of The Life of St Cuthbert, alongside an Old English poem Guthlac A and a Latin version of The Life of St Guthlac.
Margaret Tedford
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The Manuscripts of Solomon and Saturn: CCCC 41, CCCC 422, BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv
Humanities, 2022 Reflecting John D. Niles’ recent codicological reading of the Exeter Book, this essay advances a comparative reading of the three manuscripts containing Old English Solomon and Saturn dialogues.
Tiffany Beechy
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Przepisywanie Beowulfa: J.R.R. Tolkiena meandry przekładu
Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2018 Rewriting Boewulf: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Meandering Translation J.R.R. Tolkien’s works related to translation include both translations and adaptations in the form of pastiche.
Tomasz Markiewka
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Interrelationships between Language and Literature from Old English to the Modern Period [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2012 Literature is the aesthetic manifestation of language. It is ‘as old as human language and as new as tomorrow’s sunrise.’ This paper explores the interrelationships between language and literature from 600 AD to the present day.
Esmail Zare Behtash
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Liturgy and Learning: The Encyclopaedic Function of the Old English Martyrology
Religions, 2022 This article examines the broad, encyclopaedic ambit of the scholarly information contained in the ninth-century Old English Martyrology. Martyrologies generally serve as para-liturgical resources outlining the contours of the liturgical year and the ...
John Joseph Gallagher
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Un paradis sans corps ? Festins célestes et ivresses spirituelles dans l’Angleterre anglo-saxonne
Revue des Langues Romanes, 2019 In the religious literature of Anglo-Saxon England, allusions to the destiny and appearance of the blessed dead in the other world generally include, as expected in a Christian context of belief in the resurrection of the flesh, mentions of their bodies,
Alban Gautier
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The Landscape of Middle English Focusing on the Adverb Even
Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 The study is aimed at exploring adverb even as the information structural component, viz., a Focus marker in Middle English records based on the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
Olena Andrushenko
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Assessing the Productivity of Old English –læcan
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2012 The aim of this paper is to analyse the productivity of the Old English weak verbs suffixed with -læcan. The main sources for this research are the lexical database of Old English Nerthus and The Dictionary of Old English Corpus.
Gema Maíz Villalta
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