Some of the most celebrated passages of Old English poetry are speeches: Beowulf and Unferth's verbal contest, Hrothgar's words of advice, Satan's laments, Juliana's words of defiance, etc. Yet Direct Speech, as a stylistic device, has remained largely under-examined and under-t…
"There are two prose dialogs in Old English, consisting together of some 109 questions and answers. These questions are related to the medieval Latin Joca Monachorum and Adrian and Epicitus dialogues and deal with various and quite diverse topics. Some questions concern scriptur…
"There are two prose dialogs in Old English, consisting together of some 109 questions and answers. These questions are related to the medieval Latin Joca Monachorum and Adrian and Epicitus dialogues and deal with various and quite diverse topics. Some questions concern scriptur…
The Old English dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
The Old English dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
The Old English dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
The Old English dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
The Old English dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
First modern edition, with facing translation, of two of the most mysterious Old English texts extant.
The dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, found in MSS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 422 and 41, are some of the most complex Old English texts to survive. The first two dialogues, in verse and prose, present the pagan god Saturn in human form interrogating.