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Sir Archibald Strong. NG STORY ISH TORE 23 UNIVERSITATIS SCILLVM . CALIFO AT LMDCCC LV EX LIBRIS 912. Front Cover.
Sir Archibald Strong. NG STORY ISH TORE 23 UNIVERSITATIS SCILLVM . CALIFO AT LMDCCC LV EX LIBRIS 912. Front Cover.
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... story and ecclesiastical ritual and tradition . The classification is a just one , although it may obscure , if too strictly interpreted , one of the most interesting things in Old English poetry - the curious mingling in the same poem ...
... story and ecclesiastical ritual and tradition . The classification is a just one , although it may obscure , if too strictly interpreted , one of the most interesting things in Old English poetry - the curious mingling in the same poem ...
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... story . Whether he rewrote and refashioned the old lays , or merely edited them without making any very great changes , it is impossible to say ; in the present state of our knowledge it may be nearer the truth to speak of him as the ...
... story . Whether he rewrote and refashioned the old lays , or merely edited them without making any very great changes , it is impossible to say ; in the present state of our knowledge it may be nearer the truth to speak of him as the ...
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... stories besides the main one - stories of the heroic past - ly poems by way of illustration and contrast . These , as we have said , were doubtless the themes of separate lays which the shaper of Beowulf knew and worked upon . One of ...
... stories besides the main one - stories of the heroic past - ly poems by way of illustration and contrast . These , as we have said , were doubtless the themes of separate lays which the shaper of Beowulf knew and worked upon . One of ...
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... Stories from the Bible and episodes from the lives of the saints began to compete with stories from the heroic past . 1 ' Let the work of God ' , says the letter , ' be read at priestly banquets . There it is fitting to listen to a ...
... Stories from the Bible and episodes from the lives of the saints began to compete with stories from the heroic past . 1 ' Let the work of God ' , says the letter , ' be read at priestly banquets . There it is fitting to listen to a ...
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