Eald æfensceop: Poetic composition and the authority of the aged in Old English verse
The ability to compose and perform poetry or song is repeatedly linked with a state of old age in the Old English poetic corpus. This paper will highlight in turn the presentation of elderly, lyrically gifted individuals in Beowulf, Cynewulf’s epilogue to Elene and Riddle 8 of the Exeter Book. All a...
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Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
2016
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