Engla Waldend, Rex Admirabilis: Poetic Representations of King Edgar
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: The poems on King Edgar (959–975) preserved in the manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are customarily examined with the Battle of Brunanburh and The Capture of the Five Boroughs as examples of secular eulogy. This article sets the Old English verse on Edgar alongside that of the Latin adaptation of Æthelweard, West Saxon ealdorman. It offers a reading which draws out the religious and elegiac content of the vernacular texts, and illustrates how the English and Latin verses present two very different constructions of King Edgar, each carefully tailored to suit a particular context.
Source: The Review of English Studies
DOI: 10.1093/res/hgl144
Author: J. Carroll
Institution: University of Leicester
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2029304964