A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... song , but rather a list of the great kings whose deeds were the themes of such songs . It tells of the wander- ings of a scop among the Teutonic tribes . Deor's Lament is also the story of a minstrel , in which reference is made , by ...
... song , but rather a list of the great kings whose deeds were the themes of such songs . It tells of the wander- ings of a scop among the Teutonic tribes . Deor's Lament is also the story of a minstrel , in which reference is made , by ...
Sivu 2
... songs and lays of his heathen forefathers , and , making a selec- tion of them , worked them into a consecutive story . Whether he rewrote and refashioned the old lays , or merely edited them without making any very great changes , it ...
... songs and lays of his heathen forefathers , and , making a selec- tion of them , worked them into a consecutive story . Whether he rewrote and refashioned the old lays , or merely edited them without making any very great changes , it ...
Sivu 3
... song sung to increase the fertility of the soil and to ward off evil . Three longer poems , which may very well be of early date , although , like Beowulf , they have been touched up with Christian sentiment , are elegiac in tone and ...
... song sung to increase the fertility of the soil and to ward off evil . Three longer poems , which may very well be of early date , although , like Beowulf , they have been touched up with Christian sentiment , are elegiac in tone and ...
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... songs of the heathen . What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ' Ingeld is often mentioned in the heathen poetry : there is a legend about him in Beowulf . We can see the process at work in Beowulf , 4 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... songs of the heathen . What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ' Ingeld is often mentioned in the heathen poetry : there is a legend about him in Beowulf . We can see the process at work in Beowulf , 4 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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... song . ' He sang first ' , says Bede , of the earth's creation , and the beginning of man , and all the story of Genesis , and afterwards about the departure of the people of Israel from the land of Egypt , and about many other ...
... song . ' He sang first ' , says Bede , of the earth's creation , and the beginning of man , and all the story of Genesis , and afterwards about the departure of the people of Israel from the land of Egypt , and about many other ...
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