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Old English elegies and riddles.
LIBRA PR1790 .A1 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Occasional Readings ; 1.
- Occasional Readings ; 1
- Language:
- English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
- Subjects (All):
- Elegiac poetry, English (Old)--History and criticism.
- Elegiac poetry, English (Old).
- Riddles, English (Old).
- English poetry--Old English, ca. 450-1100.
- English poetry.
- English poetry--Old English.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Drama.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (approximately 35 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Provo, Utah : Chaucer Studio, [2009]
- System Details:
- 1.4 m/s
- digital recording
- Contents:
- The wife's lament / (3:46)
- Wulf and Eadwacer / (1:22)
- The ruin / (2:52)
- Old English riddles of the Exeter book ; The shield / (1:03)
- The sun / (0:45)
- The swan / (0:38)
- The nightingale / (0:44)
- The cuckoo / (0:55)
- The cup of wine / (0:45)
- The ox / (1:05)
- The horn / (1:23)
- The plough / (1:08)
- The bible / (2:05)
- The horn of Yew-Wood / (0:55)
- The Moon and the Sun / (1:04)
- The tree / (0:39)
- The bagpipe / (1:43)
- The ship / (1:02)
- The rake / (0:39)
- The mail-coat / (1:05)
- The bellows / (0:37)
- The soul and the body / (0:34)
- The dough / (0:26)
- A bookworm / (0:30)
- Fire / (0:47)
- Pen and fingers / (0:34)
- Swallows or gnats / (0:31)
- Helmets or shirt / (0:42)
- An onion / (0:37)
- Creation / (0:51)
- The iceberg / (0:20)
- The book / (0:54).
- Participant:
- Rosamund Allen.
- Notes:
- Performed in Old English.
- Read by Rosamund Allen. Recorded at the University of London, 1990. Re-edited and mastered by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas on 13 November 2008.
- OCLC:
- 699485366
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