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Judith - key quotes

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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

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Judith - critical response

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Fee - in OE version Judith acts merely as a “noble figurehead” for god

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Genesis B - key info

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Junius MS

Fall of man and angels

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Genesis B - key quotes

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'Drihtnes geongran' - lords thegns
"Sceolde his drihtne þancian"
"Se engel ofermodes"
'Alwaldan bræc/ word ond willan' - eating 
"Holdne hyge" (loyal intentions)
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Genesis B - critics

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Lucas - whole episodes “interpreted in terms of the Germanic comitatus”
Chemiss - “pride becomes the violation of the social hierarchy”

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Cædmon’s hymn - info

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C8, Bede

First christian content in AS verse

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Cædmon’s hymn - quotes

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“Aras he for scome” - exclusion from secular communities

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Cynw & Cynh - info

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Entry into AS chronicle for 755

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Cynew & Cyneh - quotes

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“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)

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Cynew & cyneh - critics

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White - “lordship was more politically and legally potent than kinship was”

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Advent Lyrics - info

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Exeter Book

Antiphons

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Advent lyrics - quotes

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“ðu eart se weall-stan” - god meta

“Dæd-hwæte”, “soð fæste” - angels secularised (brave in deeds, confirmed in glory)

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Deor - info

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Exeter Book
Elegy/lament
Refrain: distinctive

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Deor - quotes

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“þæs ofereode; þisses swa mæg”

“Me wæs Deor noma” - past tense

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Riddle 60 - info + critics

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Exeter Book

Nelson - paradox of “silent speech”

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Riddle 60 - quotes

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“Ofer meodubence - muðleas sprecan,/ wordum wrixlan” - paradox

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Wife’s Lament - info

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Exeter book

1st Person

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The wife’s lament - quotes

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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

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Wife’s lament - critics

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Scheck - “the woman bereft of her husband is just as lost as the warrior without his lord”

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TBOB - info

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Æthelstan, event in 937

In AS chronicle

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TBOB - quotes

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“Hord ond hamas”

“Cyning ond æþeling, cyþþe sohton” (king and prince sought their native land)

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TBOB - critics

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Bredehoft - poem mainly “a work of propaganda”

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Wulfstan’s ‘Sermo Lupi ad Anglos’ - info

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Early C11

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Sermo - quotes

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“And us stalu and cwalu” (rhyme)
Sin - “his hlafordes saule beswice”
“þas þeode” - collective pronouns (us/ealle)

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The letter of Alexander to Aristotle - info

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Beowulf MS

Prose fiction

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Letter - quotes

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“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”

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Elene - info

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Poem, Cynewulf

750-900

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Elene - quotes

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“Bald reordode” - (boldly spoke)

Compound epithets - “sigecwen”, “ricecwen”

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Eugenia - info

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Ælfric’s lives of saints

Hagiography

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Eugenia - quotes

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Virginity - “mægd”, “mædenes”

Disguise - “bæd hi/hyre fæx forcufon” (bade them cut her hair off)

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Lives - critics

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Horner - lives a way of demonstrating female heroism

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Agatha - info

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Ælfric’s lives of saints

Hagiography

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Agatha - quotes

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“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)

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Judith key info:

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Beowulf MS

Assyrians vs Israelites

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Beowulf critics

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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

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Beowulf - quotes (hall)

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“Winreced,/ goldsele gumena” (P/H/P)

“Dryhtsele dynede” (P)

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TDOTR - critics

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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”

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TODOTR - quotes

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“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

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Wanderer - critics

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Fell - “present misery is defined as absence of the joys of the hall”

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Wanderer - quotes

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“Ferðlocan (P) fæste binde”
“Sume wig fornom”
“Hwær cwom mearg (P)? Hwær cwom mago (P)?”
“Are gebideð” vs “are seceð”

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TBOM - critics

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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”

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TBOM - quotes

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“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)

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TBOM order of speeches

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Messenger, Byrhtnoth x 2, ælfwine, offa, leofsunu, dunnere, byrhtwold

44
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Beowulf - quotes

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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)

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Deor - critics

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Kiernan - Deor is Boethian

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Sermo - critics

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Orchard - “emphasis through repetition”; alliteration and assonance characteristic of his style.

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Letter - critics

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Orchard - Alexander presented as “wholly antagonistic”

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Agatha - critics

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Horner - Aphrodosia attempts to break her mind in order to corrupt her body (Quintianus)

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Other critics - general

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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”

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Other critics - general

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Thornman - oral poetry has a “memorial function” to authenticate events

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Wealtheow

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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”

Old English (6 decks)

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