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Anglo-Saxon and poetry
This observation is of interest not only to students of Homeric poetry but to students of Anglo-Saxon poetry as well.
This observation too may have reference to Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.
Examination of Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon poetry for evidence of oral-formulaic composition has met with mixed response.
While " themes " ( inherited narrative subunits for representing familiar classes of event, such as the " arming the hero ", or the particularly well-studied " hero on the beach " theme ) do exist across Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic works, some scholars conclude that Anglo-Saxon poetry is a mix of oral-formulaic and literate patterns, arguing that the poems both were composed on a word-by-word basis and followed larger formulae and patterns.
A few years later, Ann Watts published a book in which she argued against the imperfect application of traditional, Homeric, oral-formulaic theory to Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Anglo-Saxon poets typically used alliterative verse, a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme, a tool which is used rather infrequently.
Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse and later Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon poetry.
However those that can present a sizable body of work, listed here in descending order of quantity: sermons and saints ' lives, biblical translations ; translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers ; Anglo-Saxon chronicles and narrative history works ; laws, wills and other legal works ; practical works on grammar, medicine, geography ; and poetry.
* Anglo-Saxon poetry: an anthology of Old English poems tr.
In the last two lines Tolkien has also introduced the character of answers familiar from Old English riddle literature, while he has extended the staccato Anglo-Saxon lines of his model to adjust to our expectations of five-beat stress in heroic poetry in English.
Contemporary or near-contemporary sources include different recensions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Eric's coinage, the Life of St Cathróe and possibly skaldic poetry.
For example, in what Foley called a " pivotal " contribution, Larry Benson introduced the concept of " written-formulaic " to describe the status of some Anglo-Saxon poetry which, while demonstrably written, contains evidence of oral influences, including heavy reliance on formulas and themes A number of individual scholars in many areas continue to have misgivings about the applicability of the theory or the aptness of the South Slavic comparison, and particularly what they regard as its implications for the creativity which may legitimately be attributed to the individual artist.
This manuscript is one of four main sources for modern knowledge of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
With his theory connecting musical notation with poetic meter, he developed a unique style of poetry written in logaoedic dactyls, which was strongly influenced by the works of his beloved Anglo-Saxon poets.
The abbey became a centre of learning and here, Caedmon, the cowherd was " miraculously " transformed into an inspired poet whose poetry is an example of Anglo-Saxon literature.
The earliest surviving poetry written in Anglo-Saxon, the most direct predecessor of modern English, may have been composed as early as the 7th century.
This is generally taken as marking the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
By and large, however, Anglo-Saxon poetry is categorised by the manuscripts in which it survives, rather than its date of composition.
With one notable exception ( Rhyming Poem ), Anglo-Saxon poetry depends on alliterative verse for its structure and any rhyme included is merely ornamental.
Two more volumes were published by Thorpe in 1842, The Holy Gospels in Anglo-Saxon and Codex Exoniensis, a Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, with English Translation and Notes, a collection of Anglo-Saxon poetry with English translation.

Anglo-Saxon and appears
The account of Ælfheah's death appears in the E version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle:
The name Accrington appears to be Anglo-Saxon in origin.
Here, again, a new term appears in the record, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the first time using the word scottas, from which Scots derives, to describe the inhabitants of Constantine's kingdom in its report of these events.
The name Hertfordshire first appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1011.
That poem in turn appears to have been the principal source for the famous Anglo-Saxon poem to which the modern title The Phoenix is given.
The word " silver " appears in Anglo-Saxon in various spellings such as seolfor and siolfor.
In Old English, the word wicing appears first in the Anglo-Saxon poem, " Widsith ", which probably dates from the 9th century.
In the Migration period the standard weregeld for a freeman appears to have been 200 solidi ( shillings ), an amount reflected as the basic fee due for the death of a churl ( or ceorl ) both in later Anglo-Saxon and continental law codes.
Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples ; from the 4th century Gothic language it appears in the month name, and, in the 8th century, the English historian Bede wrote that the Anglo-Saxon calendar included the months geola or giuli corresponding with either modern December or December and January.
His name appears as Swegen in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
However, the best chronological guideline appears to be that offered by the Worcester Chronicle, i. e. the D-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Walter William Skeat noted that the Anglo-Saxon word also appears in Icelandic hvitasunnu-dagr, but that in English the feast was always called Pentecoste until after the Norman Conquest, when white ( hwitte ) began to be confused with wit or understanding.
At this time Lothian appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Loðen or Loþen.
Ecgfrith appears to have been the earliest Northumbrian king, and perhaps the earliest of the Anglo-Saxon rulers, to have issued the silver penny, which became the mainstay of English coinage for centuries afterwards.
From the archaeological evidence, it appears to be about this time that the Middle Saxon settlement in London began to expand significantly ; the centre of Anglo-Saxon London was not at the old Roman centre, but about a mile west of that, near what is now the location of the Strand.
The location of the battle appears in various forms in the sources: Brunanburh ( in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle or the chronicle of John of Worcester, or in accounts derived from them ), Brunandune ( Aethelweard ), Brunnanwerc or Bruneford or Weondune ( Symeon of Durham and accounts derived from him ), Brunefeld or Bruneford ( William of Malmesbury and accounts derived from him ), Duinbrunde ( Scottish traditions ), Brun ( Welsh traditions ), plaines of othlynn ( Annals of Clonmacnoise ), and Vinheithr ( Egil's Saga ), among others.
According to the Irish Annals of Tigernach, Magnus's goal was to seize power in England, whereas the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle appears to associate the Norwegian fleet with the return to power of Earl Ælfgār.
The common name Black Curlew may be a reference to the Glossy Ibis and this name appears in Anglo-Saxon literature, indicating that it may have bred in early medieval England but Walden & Albarella do not mention this species.
A title associated with Kent first appears anciently with the Kingdom of Kent ( or Cantware ), one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that later merged to form the Kingdom of England.
Hrólfr Kraki, Hroðulf, Rolfo, Roluo, Rolf Krage ( early 6th century ) was a legendary Danish king who appears in both Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian tradition.
Hrothgar appears in the Anglo-Saxon epics Beowulf and Widsith, and also in Norse sagas, Norse poems, and medieval Danish chronicles.
Hrothgar appears in two Anglo-Saxon poems, Beowulf and Widsith.
According to Rudolf Simek, Old Norse dís appears commonly as simply a term for ' woman ,' just as Old High German itis, Old Saxon idis, and Anglo-Saxon ides, and may have also been used to denote a type of goddess.
As stated above, dís has been regarded as cognate with Old High German itis, Old Saxon idis and the Anglo-Saxon ides, all meaning " lady ",; and idisi appears as the name of the valkyries in the only surviving pagan source from Germany, the Merseburg Incantations ( see below ).

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