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The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn (Hardcover, New)
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The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn (Hardcover, New)
Series: Anglo-Saxon Texts
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First modern edition, with facing translation, of two of the most
mysterious Old English texts extant. The dialogues of Solomon and
Saturn, found in MSS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 422 and 41,
are some of the most complex Old English texts to survive. The
first two dialogues, in verse and prose, present the pagan god
Saturn inhuman form interrogating King Solomon about the mysterious
powers of the Pater Noster, while in a second poem the two discuss
in enigmatic terms a range of topics, from the power of books to
the limits of free will. This newedition - the first to appear for
some 150 years - presents a parallel text and translation,
accompanied by notes and commentary. The volume also includes a
full introduction, examining the evidence pointing to the influence
of Irish continental learning on the dialogues' style and content;
arguing that the circle which produced the dialogues was located at
Glastonbury in the early tenth century, and included the young
Dunstan, future archbishop of Canterbury; and locating the texts in
the context of the learned riddling tradition, and philosophical
debates current in the ninth and tenth centuries. Dr DANIEL
ANLEZARK teaches in the Department of English at the Universityof
Sydney.
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