224 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Saxon runic script had already become the preserve of antiquarians at the time the majority of Old English poetry was written down, and the Icelanders recording the mythology associated with the script... Read more
Introduction: script and sensibility
1 The writing’s on the wall: inscription and inheritance in Old English poetry
2 Releasing runes: riddles and revelation in the Exeter Book
3 Palm-twigs and runic glyphs: the ornamental textuality of runes
4 Re-scripting the past in Old Norse heroic poetry
5 Sacred script: myths of writing in the Poetic Edda
Conclusion: the shape of things to come
Bibliography
Biography
Tom Birkett is a Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork, Ireland.
