Ráð Rétt Rúnar: reading the runes in Old English and Old Norse poetry

Responding to the common plea in medieval inscriptions to ráð rétt rúnar, to ‘interpret the runes correctly’, this thesis provides a series of contextual readings of the runic topos in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse poetry. The first chapter looks at the use of runes in the Old English riddles, examining...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Birkett, T
مؤلفون آخرون: O'Donoghue, H
التنسيق: أطروحة
اللغة:English
منشور في: 2011
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