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Proverbia Septentrionalia examines the uses of the proverb in the
medieval cultures of northern Europe, and in particular how it is
employed in literature and in non-fictional writings. The
discipline of paroemiology, or the study of proverbs, recognizes
their origins as often preceding the literate stage of societies.
In fact, they must have made up a significant element in that
formulaic framework by which knowledge and wisdom were fixed and
transmitted generationally in the communities of pre-literate
humanity. Proverb texts have, and indeed may be defined by, their
own generative structure, the presence of which in texts
incorporated in poems and stories marks such passages not merely as
instructive in themselves, but also as resonating with accepted
communal wisdom in ways that can help us understand the works in
which they occur.
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