Biographia Britannica Literaria: Anglo-Saxon periodJ.W. Parker, 1842 - Anglo-Norman literature |
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... preserved in the Exeter manuscript , and which has been frequently printed under the title of the Traveller's Song , * a minstrel is intro- duced enumerating the various lands which he had seen in his wanderings , and he concludes with ...
... preserved in the Exeter manuscript , and which has been frequently printed under the title of the Traveller's Song , * a minstrel is intro- duced enumerating the various lands which he had seen in his wanderings , and he concludes with ...
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... preserved from age to age . They rehearsed such por- tions of it as might be asked for by the hearers , or as the circumstances of the moment might require , for it seems certain that they were in the habit of singing detached scenes ...
... preserved from age to age . They rehearsed such por- tions of it as might be asked for by the hearers , or as the circumstances of the moment might require , for it seems certain that they were in the habit of singing detached scenes ...
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... preserved as a kind of nomenclature of geography ; and , as might be expected , it is full of interpolations , by the addition of the names of countries , of which the knowledge was brought in by the Christian writers . 4. The poetry of ...
... preserved as a kind of nomenclature of geography ; and , as might be expected , it is full of interpolations , by the addition of the names of countries , of which the knowledge was brought in by the Christian writers . 4. The poetry of ...
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... preserved to us only in a Latin dress , is the escape of a prince and his affianced bride from the court of the Huns , where they had been detained as hostages . * 7. The only perfect monument of Anglo - Saxon romance , which the hand ...
... preserved to us only in a Latin dress , is the escape of a prince and his affianced bride from the court of the Huns , where they had been detained as hostages . * 7. The only perfect monument of Anglo - Saxon romance , which the hand ...
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... preserved the following short hymn on the conversion of the Anglo- Saxons : Sanctus papa Gregorius , Augustini didascalus , Dum per eum multimoda Nosset geri miracula , Et Saxonum cor saxeum Fateri Christum dominum , Proventu ...
... preserved the following short hymn on the conversion of the Anglo- Saxons : Sanctus papa Gregorius , Augustini didascalus , Dum per eum multimoda Nosset geri miracula , Et Saxonum cor saxeum Fateri Christum dominum , Proventu ...
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