Thomas Birkett

Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting five linked case studies of runes in poetry, this study is the first to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The author views these representations through the paradigm of scriptural reconstruction and the validation of contemporary literary, historical and religious sensibilities to enhance our understanding of early medieval attitudes to a literate past, and to explore the relationship between Anglo-Saxon and Norse textual cultures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9781472446268
• ISBN-10: 1472446267
• Artikelnr.: 48213727

Autorenporträt

Tom Birkett is a Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: script and sensibility
1 The writing's on the wall: inscription and inheritance in Old English
poetry
2 Releasing runes: riddles and revelation in the Exeter Book
3 Palm-twigs and runic glyphs: the ornamental textuality of runes
4 Re-scripting the past in Old Norse heroic poetry
5 Sacred script: myths of writing in the Poetic Edda
Conclusion: the shape of things to come
Bibliography

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Introduction: script and sensibility

1 The writing's on the wall: inscription and inheritance in Old English poetry

2 Releasing runes: riddles and revelation in the Exeter Book

3 Palm-twigs and runic glyphs: the ornamental textuality of runes

4 Re-scripting the past in Old Norse heroic poetry

5 Sacred script: myths of writing in the Poetic Edda

Conclusion: the shape of things to come



Bibliography