The Old English Rune Poem : : A Critical Edition / / Maureen Halsall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Halsall, Maureen,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: McMaster Old English Studies and Texts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

This critical edition provides unique access to a work which has challenged scholars and students alike. The book is the first to deal fully with the poem as literature and to supply the runic background necessary for an understanding of the raw materials with which the poet was working. The introduction offers a thorough discussion of the origin, development, and uses of runes before proceeding to the close examination of text, language, literary sources, style, and themes of the poem. Following the text and translation of the poem proper, detailed explanatory notes pay particular attention to the background of each individual rune and rune name, and the appendixes provide analogous material to assist in setting the poet's achievement into the runic context. Since many of the sources necessary for an accurate assessement of the Old English Rune Poem are written in foreign or dead languages, modern English translations have been provided throughout to ensure that the poem will be accessible to students as well as to professional medievalists. (McMaster Old English Studies and Texts 2)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Runes and their Use -- The Textual Background of the Rune Poem -- Sources and Genre of the Rune Poem -- Style and Themes of the Old English Rune Poem -- The Literary Achievement of the Rune Poem -- Notes -- The Old English Rune Poem -- Text and Translation -- Explanatory notes -- Glossary -- Appendixes -- Bibliography