Hwæt. That word, barking through the clatter of the mead hall, typically opened an Old English poem in the Dark Ages, and roughly translates to “What” or “Listen now.” Old English is largely Germanic, ...

Hefty and easy to like, fit at once for the classroom and the kitchen table, this anthology is a rare beast, a commercial opportunity that also fulfills a real literary need. Most of the corpus of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Scholars who have applied the "oral-formulaic" theory to Anglo-Saxon poetry have imported with the theory a notion that "oral tradition" ...

This dissertation analyzes personified objects in Anglo-Saxon poetry alongside surviving inscribed objects to show how the Anglo-Saxons perceived writing as a wondrous and powerful technology that was ...

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Michael Alexander on Castle Sands, St Andrews, with his younger daughter, Flora, 1982 - Lucy Alexander Michael Alexander, who has died aged 82, was a translator, poet, academic and broadcaster whose ...

His translations were singled out by WH Auden, Seamus Heaney and Kenneth Clark, who used Alexander’s renderings of Anglo-Saxon poetry in Civilisation. Academic success led to literary commissions for ...

According to one scholar, it has been called the “greatest Christian poem written in English.” That’s a debatable call but a position that one would well argue. It is certainly one of the oldest poems ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and other Trump loyalists sought to form a congressional group that upholds “Anglo-Saxon” traditions. (Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images) Perspective by L.D. Burnett On ...