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Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry (Paperback)
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Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry (Paperback)
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Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first
book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the
literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The
Anglo-Saxon runic script had already become the preserve of
antiquarians at the time the majority of Old English poetry was
written down, and the Icelanders recording the mythology associated
with the script were at some remove from the centres of runic
practice in medieval Scandinavia. Both literary cultures thus
inherited knowledge of the runic system and the traditions
associated with it, but viewed this literate past from the vantage
point of a developed manuscript culture. There has, as yet, been no
comprehensive study of poetic responses to this scriptural
heritage, which include episodes in such canonical texts as
Beowulf, the Old English riddles and the poems of the Poetic Edda.
By analysing the inflection of the script through shared literary
traditions, this study enhances our understanding of the burgeoning
of literary self-awareness in early medieval vernacular poetry and
the construction of cultural memory, and furthers our understanding
of the relationship between Anglo-Saxon and Norse textual cultures.
The introduction sets out in detail the rationale for examining
runes in poetry as a literary motif and surveys the relevant
critical debates. The body of the volume is comprised of five
linked case studies of runes in poetry, viewing these
representations through the paradigm of scriptural reconstruction
and the validation of contemporary literary, historical and
religious sensibilities.
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