Other Texts Flashcards
Judith - key quotes
Named ‘Scyppendes mægd’
“Hie þæt fæge þegon” (they partook as doomed men)
“Wæs ða eft cuman/leof to leodum” (their beloved had returned to the people)
Holofernes: ‘morðres bryttan’ (perversion of formulaic phrase)
“Medugal” mead mad
Judith - critical response
Fee - in OE version Judith acts merely as a “noble figurehead” for god
Genesis B - key info
Junius MS
Fall of man and angels
Genesis B - key quotes
'Drihtnes geongran' - lords thegns "Sceolde his drihtne þancian" "Se engel ofermodes" 'Alwaldan bræc/ word ond willan' - eating "Holdne hyge" (loyal intentions)
Genesis B - critics
Lucas - whole episodes “interpreted in terms of the Germanic comitatus”
Chemiss - “pride becomes the violation of the social hierarchy”
Cædmon’s hymn - info
C8, Bede
First christian content in AS verse
Cædmon’s hymn - quotes
“Aras he for scome” - exclusion from secular communities
Cynw & Cynh - info
Entry into AS chronicle for 755
Cynew & Cyneh - quotes
“Feoh ond feorh” - (life and money)
“Nænig mæg leofra nære þonne hiera hlaford”
“Feos ond londes” (money and land - different legal positioning (at a disadvantage here)
Cynew & cyneh - critics
White - “lordship was more politically and legally potent than kinship was”
Advent Lyrics - info
Exeter Book
Antiphons
Advent lyrics - quotes
“ðu eart se weall-stan” - god meta
“Dæd-hwæte”, “soð fæste” - angels secularised (brave in deeds, confirmed in glory)
Deor - info
Exeter Book
Elegy/lament
Refrain: distinctive
Deor - quotes
“þæs ofereode; þisses swa mæg”
“Me wæs Deor noma” - past tense
Riddle 60 - info + critics
Exeter Book
Nelson - paradox of “silent speech”
Riddle 60 - quotes
“Ofer meodubence - muðleas sprecan,/ wordum wrixlan” - paradox
Wife’s Lament - info
Exeter book
1st Person
The wife’s lament - quotes
Heavy pronoun use - ic/me then ‘wit’ (we two)
“Wa bið þam þe sceal/ of langoþe - leofes abidan” - woe is for the one who must await a loved one with longing
Wife’s lament - critics
Scheck - “the woman bereft of her husband is just as lost as the warrior without his lord”
TBOB - info
Æthelstan, event in 937
In AS chronicle
TBOB - quotes
“Hord ond hamas”
“Cyning ond æþeling, cyþþe sohton” (king and prince sought their native land)
TBOB - critics
Bredehoft - poem mainly “a work of propaganda”
Wulfstan’s ‘Sermo Lupi ad Anglos’ - info
Early C11
Sermo - quotes
“And us stalu and cwalu” (rhyme)
Sin - “his hlafordes saule beswice”
“þas þeode” - collective pronouns (us/ealle)
The letter of Alexander to Aristotle - info
Beowulf MS
Prose fiction
Letter - quotes
“Wæstmas wæs on cristallum ond smaragdus” (fruits were of crystal and emerald)
“Gefyldon ond hit ofbeoton” (felled and beat it)
“Ic wolde cunnian meahte ic ealne middengeard”
Elene - info
Poem, Cynewulf
750-900
Elene - quotes
“Bald reordode” - (boldly spoke)
Compound epithets - “sigecwen”, “ricecwen”
Eugenia - info
Ælfric’s lives of saints
Hagiography
Eugenia - quotes
Virginity - “mægd”, “mædenes”
Disguise - “bæd hi/hyre fæx forcufon” (bade them cut her hair off)
Lives - critics
Horner - lives a way of demonstrating female heroism
Agatha - info
Ælfric’s lives of saints
Hagiography
Agatha - quotes
“Snotor and gelyfed” (wise) vs. “Fulum wife” (aphrodosia)
“Mod/ gebigan ne mihte” - (aphrodosia) she might not bend her mind)
“Ic eom godes þinen” (I am gods handmaid)
Judith key info:
Beowulf MS
Assyrians vs Israelites
Beowulf critics
Lapidge - “shift in narrative perspective serves to underline Grendel’s terror”
Orchard - poet “mingles the worlds of monsters and men”
O’Brien O’Keefe - “grotesque parody” Grendel eating/drinking
Beowulf - quotes (hall)
“Winreced,/ goldsele gumena” (P/H/P)
“Dryhtsele dynede” (P)
TDOTR - critics
Chemiss- style is “Anglo-Saxon retainer in service of a secular lord”
Orchard - parallels drawn between cross + Christ - key is “small company”
Overing - cross is an “alternating vision of hope and despair”
TODOTR - quotes
“Syllic wæs se sigebeam, ond ic synonym fah”
“He me wolde on gestigan”
“Ongyrede hine þa geong Hæleð - þæt wæs God almihtig”
“Bana”
“Se beorn ymbclypt”
Bfode ic
Wanderer - critics
Fell - “present misery is defined as absence of the joys of the hall”
Wanderer - quotes
“Ferðlocan (P) fæste binde”
“Sume wig fornom”
“Hwær cwom mearg (P)? Hwær cwom mago (P)?”
“Are gebideð” vs “are seceð”
TBOM - critics
Tyler - Vikings presented as “hardly human” (othering) “wælwulfas”
Trilling - “byrhtnoth’s men fight not for their faith but for their lord”
Irving (jnr) - b is the “pattern and formula for the rest”
TBOM - quotes
“Rad ond rædde”
“Betere is/ þæt ge þisne garræs mid gafole forgyldon”
“Hi willað eow to gafole garas syllan” (we will give you spears as tribute)
“Byrhtnoð maþelode (P), bord hafenode”
“Her stynt unforcuð (P) eorl mid his weorode”
“Folc and foldan”
“Folces ealdor, æþelredes eorl”
“Min mæg and min hlaford”
“Mæru cwen,/ HPX friðusibb folca” (famous queen, peace pledge of the people)
TBOM order of speeches
Messenger, Byrhtnoth x 2, ælfwine, offa, leofsunu, dunnere, byrhtwold
Beowulf - quotes
G’s mum: ‘aglæcwif’, ‘brimwulf’, “wolde hire bearn wrecan/ angan eaferan” (she wanted to avenge her child, her sole heir)
G: ‘mearcstapa’
Hrothgar: ‘beaga bryttan’ (formulaic)
Deor - critics
Kiernan - Deor is Boethian
Sermo - critics
Orchard - “emphasis through repetition”; alliteration and assonance characteristic of his style.
Letter - critics
Orchard - Alexander presented as “wholly antagonistic”
Agatha - critics
Horner - Aphrodosia attempts to break her mind in order to corrupt her body (Quintianus)
Other critics - general
O’Brien O’Keeffee - eating and drinking is “a way to protect the individual from isolation”
K Hume - hall “not simply the hall as a building but the social systems associated with it”
Other critics - general
Thornman - oral poetry has a “memorial function” to authenticate events
Wealtheow
Married to Hrothgar (Dane). Born as a Helming.
“Mæru cwen,/ HPX friðusibb folca” (famous queen, peace pledge of the people
Name potentially means “foreign slave”
