By Albert C. Baugh, Kemp Malone
The paperback version, in 4 volumes, of this typical paintings will make it on hand to scholars. The scope of the paintings makes it precious as a piece of reference, connecting one interval with one other and putting each one writer truly within the environment of his time. Reviewing the 1st variation, the days Literary complement commented: ‘in inclusiveness and in judgment it has few competitors of its kind’. this primary quantity covers the center a while (to 1500) in sections: The previous English interval (to 1100) by means of Kemp Malone (John Hopkins University), and the center English interval (1100-1500) by means of Albert C. Baugh (University of Pennsylvania).
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The thrice repeated become is also of stylistic interest. But the reader can make his own commentary. , Archiv, CLXXI (1937). Shook, MLN, LV (1940). 139–140. Magoun, Jr. (ESt, LXXII [1937]. 1–6). Wenne 40 Bethlem THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD The two variants of Bethlem have some importance for the textual critic, and are therefore given here (the same translation will serve for both): Lyre Bæðleem hatte seo buruh, Þe Crist on acænned wæs. Seo is gemærsod geond ealne middangeard. Swa þyos dæd for monnum mære gewurþe.
32 THE OLD TRADITION: POPULAR POETRY 33 Ætla weold Hunum, Eormanric Gotum, Becca Baningum, Burgendum Gifica Attila ruled the Huns, Ermanric the Goths, Becca the Banings, Gifica the Burgundians. The first thula is a list of kings; each king (30 are listed) is identified in terms of the tribe he rules. The second thula, as we have it, consists of twenty lines (57–64, 68–69, 75, 79–87): ten single lines and five couplets. Its first two lines (a couplet) sufficiently indicate its pattern: Ic wæs mid Hunum ond mid Hreðgotum, mid Sweom ond mid Geatum ond mid Suþdenum I was with the Huns and with the Hreth-Goths, with the Swedes and with the Geats and with the South-Danes.
Its literary elaboration may well have taken place under the influence of the riddles, of which more anon. If so, the poem as it stands hardly antedates the eighth century and may be much later. 8 7 8 The best ed. Dickins, Runic and Heroic Poems (Cambridge. 1915). Hickes, Linguarum Veterum Septentrionalium Thesaurus (Oxford, 1705), 1. 135. THE OLD TRADITION: POPULAR POETRY 35 Another notable piece of mnemonic verse, the Old English Menologium or calendar poem,9 is recorded in the eleventh-century MS Cotton Tiberius B I.