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" ...

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 ...

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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 ...