An Unseen Eighth Rune: Runic Legacy and Multiliteral Performativity in Cynewulf’s <i>The Fates of the Apostles</i>
The four Old English poems containing the runic Cyn(e)wulf ‘signature’ have continuously provoked debate as to the characters’ intratextual function and proper interpretation. While the prevailing view is that they are predominantly logogrammatic instantiations of traditional runic names, a case has...
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MDPI AG
2021-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/4/124 |