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Poetry :: Lightspill
creative work pictures, poetry, scholarship
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Poetry :: Translations from Old English
Note on the translations
These translations from Old English aim to capture my understanding of the texts at the time, all the while remembering that these texts are poems. Sometimes the resulting la...
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Seafarer :: From the Old English :: Lightspill
The Seafarer
Manuscript: The Exeter Book (preserved in the library of Exeter Cathedral). Editions: Krapp, George Philip, and Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie, eds. The Exeter Book. ASPR 3. New York: Columbia UP...
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Middle English Romance :: Notes and Outlines :: Lightspill
Romance Structure
Romance originally denoted languages
(esp. French) derived from Latin (i.e., Roman), later came to refer
to something written in French, and t...
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Riddles :: From the Old English :: Lightspill
Five Old English Riddles
Manuscript: The Exeter Book. Edition: Krapp, George Philip, and Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie, eds. The Exeter Book. ASPR 3. New York: Columbia UP, 1936. Several other separate edit...
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Dream of the Rood :: From the Old English :: Lightspill
The Dream of the Rood
Manuscript: The Vercelli Book (chapter library of the cathedral at Vercelli, Codex CXVII). Editions: Krapp, George Philip, ed. The Vercelli Book. ASPR 2. New York: Columbia UP, 1...