Judith, Studies in Metre, Language and Style (Classic Reprint): With a View to Determining the Date of the Oldenglish Fragment and the Home of Its ... and the Home of Its Author (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Unravel the craft and history of Old English Judith.
This scholarly study examines the Old English poem Judith, focusing on its metre, language, and style to help determine when it was written and where its author came from. It surveys past critical views, analyzes verse patterns, and weighs dialect clues found in the text and manuscript history. The pages aim to illuminate how form and word choice shape the poem’s meaning as a piece of early English literature.

- Explore how alliteration, line endings, and rhyme inform the poem’s structure.
- Learn how dialect features and verb forms point to an Anglian origin.
- See how scholars debate dating the work, from early Caedmonian attributions to later medieval possibilities.
- Understand the methods used to read ancient texts, including manuscript transmission and linguistic clues.

Ideal for readers of Old English, scholars, students, and anyone curious about how form reveals history in a classic poem.

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