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Reading the runes in Old English and Old Norse poetry / Tom Birkett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birkett, Thomas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Old Norse poetry--History and criticism.
- Old Norse poetry.
- Runes.
- English poetry--Old English.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2017.
- Contents:
- Introduction: script and sensibility
- The writing's on the wall: inscription and inheritance in Old English poetry
- Releasing runes: riddles and revelation in the Exeter Book
- Palm-twigs and runic glyphs: the ornamental textuality of runes
- Re-scripting the past in Old Norse heroic poetry
- Sacred script: myths of writing in the Poetic Edda
- Conclusion: the shape of things to come.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1472446267
- 9781472446268
- OCLC:
- 938994944
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