Early medieval English language and literature
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Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
An overview of the dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the language of Rohan. I argue that Tolkien chose the dialect represented by the early glossaries in Old Mercian, especially the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, as representatives of the kind of Old English he thought Beowulf was originally composed in.
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Thijs Porck deposited “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Thijs Porck, “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen”, in Tot publijcque dienst der studie: Boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana, ed. Wim van Anrooij & Paul Hoftijzer (Hilversum: Verloren, 2023), 118-119
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Thijs Porck deposited “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899) in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Thijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129.
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Nelson Goering deposited Metre in Old Saxon and Old High German in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
Schematic (bullet-point) overview of Old Saxon and Old High German metre, with a particular emphasis on alliterative verse. My goal is to sketch out the main features of the metre, especially in comparison with Old English, rather than to delve into theoretical fundamentals (though an appendix touching on that topic is included). I also append a…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Old English Metre in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
An overview of the main features of Old English metre, including a comparison of theories for the basic operation of the metrical system.
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Katherine Cross deposited Moving on from ‘the Milk of Simpler Teaching’: Weaning and Religious Education in Early Medieval England in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 10 months ago
This chapter is published within Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives, ed. Porck and Soper. Please email me if you would like to cite it and I will send you a PDF with page numbers.
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Nelson Goering deposited Review of Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
Review of Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon, by Megan E. Hartman, Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2020, pp. XII + 213, £83.00, ISBN: 978-1-5015-1832-4
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Nelson Goering deposited Phonological Evidence for Resolution in Early Middle English in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
A review of evidence for foot structure from early Middle English.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] Mark Atherton, Complete Old English: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Old English with Original Texts in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Published in English Studies (2022)
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] Ursula Lenker and Lucia Kornexl (eds.). Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Published in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 80 (2020), 233-236.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] H. Gneuss and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Published in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 76 (2016), 551-553.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] J. D. Niles, The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901. Remembering, Forgetting, Deciphering, and Renewing the Past in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Published in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 76 (2016), 435–438.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] E. Treharne, Living through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Published in English Studies 96 (2015), 225–226.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] R.M. Hogg and R.D. Fulk,A Grammar of Old English. Volume 2: Morphology in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Published in English Studies 94 (2013), 733–734.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] The Old English Boethius. An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae, ed. M. Godden and S. Irvine in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Published in English Studies 92 (2011), 100–102.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] E.R. Anderson, Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European Epic: A Study in Comparative Mythology in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Published in English Studies 92 (2011), 693–694.
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Thijs Porck deposited [Review of] T. Bolton, The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Published in English Studies 94 (2013), 235–237
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Thijs Porck deposited Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Thijs Porck, “Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age”, in Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World, ed. Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020), 219-235, 278-282, 287.
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Thijs Porck deposited Let Them Be Vlogged! Video Assignments for the Old English Classroom in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
A brief article reporting on an educational strategy to use video assignments on Exeter Book Riddles for an Old English course.
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