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 ...

https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.115.1.0095 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jenglgermphil.115.1.0095 Copy URL Two recent books on Anglo-Saxon ideas ...

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“Beowulf,” the first great literary epic to come out of the British Isles, barely squeaked its way to us through time. Created between 650 and 850 A.D. and committed to manuscript circa 1000 A.D., it ...

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" ...

To talk or write about Borges has almost as disturbing an effect as reading him, for we are at once drawn into his disquieting dimension, the creating and fixing of which is his greatest ...

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously depicts William the Conqueror's victory over the so-called Anglo-Saxons Public domain via Wikimedia Commons People in the United States and Great Britain ...

Meat-heavy banquets have long been thought to be a common feature of early medieval life for England’s kings and nobles, who are often depicted feasting on legs of animal flesh and knocking back ...