![]() ![]() Prophecy and admonitionĬhapter 2, "Releasing runes: riddles and revelation in the Exeter Book," identifies the runes as book scripts that representĪ co-option in a context of revelatory reading practices. Reflect an Anglo-Saxon choice to understand their runic heritage via aĬustomized paradigm of Christian salvation history. Along with Andreas, the poetic representations of runic inscriptions seem to Wall, on the hilt of the giant sword recovered from the Grendels' cave inīeowulf. Old Testament history informs the use of runes in the Old English Daniel and, with the author's clever shift to another This same association, indeed alignment, between the script and With both Germanic and early Christian history, but in a distinct prophetic On the Franks Casket, runes are associated ![]() Wall," addresses the links between inscription and inheritance in OldĮnglish poetry, and probes Anglo-Saxon antiquarians' theoretical engagement ![]() The focus on literary residue in medieval poetry partiallyĭeconstructs the perception of the oral-formulaic model of transmission of Post-conversion period inherited knowledge of the runic system and itsĬonventions but, as custodians of received tradition, viewed this literate Hermeneutical framework of poetic texts and not simply "a pale reflection ofĮxistential runic practice" (4). RunesĪre, both graphically and literarily, meaningful signs within the Reading the Runes is no casual promotional title butĪ fundamental intellectual undertaking of medieval poets and their publics,Īnd implies the possibility of both mis-inscription and misreading. Tradition from the vantage point of a developed literary culture" (2). History of the runic script, produced by a culture contemplating the runic Of runes in medieval poetry as the first layer in the complex reception Have published the first study that "understands the use and representation Medieval poetry from north-western Europe justifies the author's claim to Cornell reading of runes and their lore as refigured in two related bodies of. ![]()
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