Codex exoniensis: A collection of Anglo-Saxon poetry, from a manuscript in the library of the dean and chapter of ExeterBenjamin Thorpe |
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Page 530 - ANALECTA ANGLO-SAXONICA.— A Selection, in Prose and Verse, from Anglo-Saxon Authors, of various ages, with a Glossary. By Benjamin Thorpe, FSA A New Edition, with corrections and improvements. Post 8vo, cloth, 8s.
Page 507 - The original of the present poem is a prose homily to be found in most of the Mss. (of which a Latin original no doubt exists).
Page vi - The pieces they contain (the first 106 pages) are no doubt translations from the Latin, but their subject is not of a nature to stimulate many to search after the originals, which if discovered, would prove of little use in elucidating the obscurities or correcting the errors of a version , in this and all similar cases yet known , too paraphrastic to admit of comparison. der mittlere theil des C ist, wie oben bemerkt, nach der 29n...
Page 306 - And I was with Eormanric. All which time There to me the Gothic king Was bounteously kind ; He me a bracelet gave, 180 The chieftain of his citizens, On which six hundred were Of beaten gold, Sceats scored, In shillings reckon'd Which I to Eadgils In possession gave My patron-lord, When to my home I came, In requital to my friend, 190 For that he me had given land, My father's home, The Myrging's Lord ; And to me then Ealhild Another gave, The noble queen of chieftains, Eadwine's daughter...
Page x - Collections of ^nigmata have been left us by Symposius, Aldhelm, Beda, and others; but these are, generally speaking, extremely short, and although they may occasionally have suggested a subject to our 'scop' whereon to exercise his skill, yet are those in the present collection too essentially Anglo-Saxon to justify the belief that they are other than original productions.
Page 483 - E., p. 88), form, when combined, the name of Cynewulf. Who this individual was, to whom we are indebted for the paraphrase of the Life of Juliana and perhaps all the Vercelli poetry, is not known ; though among those bearing the name, whose memory has been transmitted to us, there is perhaps no one to whom the above-mentioned productions may with greater probability be ascribed, than Kenulphus, who in 992 became abbot of Peterborough, and in 1000 succeeded Alfeagus in the see of Winchester.
Page 304 - Guthhere x gave me there a splendid jewel in reward for my song; that was no sluggish king ! With the Franks I was, and with the Frisians and with the Frumtings. With the Rugas I was, and with the Glommas and with the Romans. Likewise I was in Italy with ^Elfwine...
Page 289 - Er übersetzt: but guard himself therefrom, in his courageous soul, shall a man wise and temperate us №. 86.
Page 200 - ... God hath commanded ; in winter and in summer the forest is alike hung with fruits, never fade the leaves in air, nor will flame them injure, ever throughout ages, ere that an end to the world shall be.
Page 425 - I ere dawn alone go under the oak tree, among these earth-caves ; there I may sit the long summer day, there I can weep my exile-journeyings, my many hardships ; for I may never from my mind's 5.