Add to ORKGIn A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins.Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion, and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from head-warrior to ink-belly or battle-singer. In his notes and commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions, sources, and analogues, a shrewd sense of literary play, and traces the literary and cultural contexts in which each ...
William of Malmesbury, writing more than four centuries later, tells a tale of the Anglo-Saxon Aldhe...
William of Malmesbury, writing more than four centuries later, tells a tale of the Anglo-Saxon Aldhe...
This is a paper presented before the 1990 JACET Convention held at Kanda University of International...
In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Ex...
The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monster...
The Exeter Book, a late tenth-century manuscript of early Old English poetry, is an anthology of r...
From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling acco...
This study of Shakespeare and riddles seeks to develop three central points. First, riddles were an ...
Riddling is a universal phenomenon with a noble and ancient lineage. The Vedas, the Koran, the Old T...
Compares the nature and function of the riddles in The Hobbit with their source in such Anglo-Saxon ...
The term 'English Riddle Ballad' is taken here to describe the six items in Child's collect...
Within the Anglo-Saxon corpus, birds play a prominent role in religious poetry, acting as characters...
Symphosius\u27s Latin Aenigmata and the Old English Exeter Book, although known as two related colle...
“Oxford Dons call for slaying of Beowulf” ran the headline in the Daily Telegraph in 1998, as battle...
The Exeter Book riddles are a heterogeneous collection, and at first glance it seems they have littl...
William of Malmesbury, writing more than four centuries later, tells a tale of the Anglo-Saxon Aldhe...
William of Malmesbury, writing more than four centuries later, tells a tale of the Anglo-Saxon Aldhe...
This is a paper presented before the 1990 JACET Convention held at Kanda University of International...
In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Ex...
The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monster...
The Exeter Book, a late tenth-century manuscript of early Old English poetry, is an anthology of r...
From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling acco...
This study of Shakespeare and riddles seeks to develop three central points. First, riddles were an ...
Riddling is a universal phenomenon with a noble and ancient lineage. The Vedas, the Koran, the Old T...
Compares the nature and function of the riddles in The Hobbit with their source in such Anglo-Saxon ...
The term 'English Riddle Ballad' is taken here to describe the six items in Child's collect...
Within the Anglo-Saxon corpus, birds play a prominent role in religious poetry, acting as characters...
Symphosius\u27s Latin Aenigmata and the Old English Exeter Book, although known as two related colle...
“Oxford Dons call for slaying of Beowulf” ran the headline in the Daily Telegraph in 1998, as battle...
The Exeter Book riddles are a heterogeneous collection, and at first glance it seems they have littl...
William of Malmesbury, writing more than four centuries later, tells a tale of the Anglo-Saxon Aldhe...
William of Malmesbury, writing more than four centuries later, tells a tale of the Anglo-Saxon Aldhe...
This is a paper presented before the 1990 JACET Convention held at Kanda University of International...