Old English Shorter Poems - Wisdom and Lyric

Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find meaning in the loss of fortune and reputation, exile, and alienation. Wisdom also emerges as folk remedies, such as charms to treat stabbing pain, cysts, childbirth, and nightmares of witch-riding caused by a dwarf.

About the author

A Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, Robert E. Bjork is Foundation Professor of English and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University.

Summary

Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find meaning in the loss of fortune and reputation, exile, and alienation. Wisdom also emerges as folk remedies, such as charms to treat stabbing pain, cysts, childbirth, and nightmares of witch-riding caused by a dwarf.

Product details

• Authors: Robert E. Bjork
• Assisted by: Robert E Bjork (Editor), Robert E. Bjork (Editor), Robert E Bjork (Translation), Robert E. Bjork (Translation), Robert E. Bjork (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2014
• EAN: 9780674053069
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05306-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Librar
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, POETRY / Medieval, CE period up to c 1500, Literature & literary studies, Medieval History, United Kingdom, Great Britain, History and Archaeology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets