Store of Common Sense Gnomic Theme and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English Wisdom Poetry

Name: Store of Common Sense Gnomic Theme and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English Wisdom Poetry
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ISBN: 9780198119821

ISBN-10: 0198119828

ISBN-13: 9780198119821

Edition: 1993

Authors: Carolyne Larrington

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A Store of Common Sense is the first comparative study in English of Old Icelandic and Old English wisdom poetry. It examines problems of form, unity, and coherence, and how the genre responds to social change, both reflecting and shaping the thinking of the communities which originate it. Carolyne Larrington analyses the differences between the pagan wisdom of Norse, ranging through everyday practical advice, rune magic, and spells, and the Christian, socially oriented ideals of Old English wisdom poetry, strongly rooted in Christian concepts of `natural' order and hierarchy in God's Creation. Close reading in primary texts, both runic and magical, lays bare the skilful, structural…

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List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/26/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 254
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction



Havamal



Introduction



Some Working Assumptions



An Account of the Text: The Gnomic Poem, 1-103



Gunnlod and the Mead of Poetry, 104-110



Loddfafnismal



Runatal



Ljodatal



Conclusion



Wisdom in the Education of the Hero: the Poems of Sigurdr's Youth



Introduction



Prose Traditions



Gripisspa



Reginsmal



Fafnismal



Sigrdrifumal



Christian Wisdom Poetry: Hugsvinnsmal



Havamal, Hugsvinnsmal, and Disticha Catonis: A Problem of Relationships



Hugsvinnsmal: The Adaptation of Pagan Material for Christian Education



Old English Wisdom Poetry: Its Range and Themes



The Exeter Maxims



The Cotton Maxims



The Rune Poem



Fortunes of Men



Precepts



Solomon and Saturn II



Gnomic Poetry and the Natural World: Nature as an Aesthetic



Gnomes in Elegy



Old Norse Elegy



Old English Elegy



Gnomes in Narrative Verse: Old English and Old Norse



The Heroic: Fortitudo



The Heroic: Sapientia



The Narrative Voice


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index