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Author : Gillian Paton Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wordhoard written by Gillian Paton Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight stories of Anglo-Saxon times when raiders came from the North, and Paganism and Christianity struggled for recognition.
Author : Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Word Hoard written by Jill Paton Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Word hoard ; Anglo-Saxon stories [by] Jill Paton Walsh and Kevin Crossley-Holland written by Jill Paton Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hana Videen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691237182
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Wordhord written by Hana Videen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven’t changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation (gafol-fisc, or tax-fish). In this delightful book, Hana Videen gathers a glorious trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers. We discover a world where choking on a bit of bread might prove your guilt, where fiend-ship was as likely as friendship, and where you might grow up to be a laughter-smith. The Wordhord takes readers on a journey through Old English words and customs related to practical daily activities (eating, drinking, learning, working); relationships and entertainment; health and the body, mind, and soul; the natural world (animals, plants, and weather); locations and travel (the source of some of the most evocative words in Old English); mortality, religion, and fate; and the imagination and storytelling. Each chapter ends with its own “wordhord”—a list of its Old English terms, with definitions and pronunciations. Entertaining and enlightening, The Wordhord reveals the magical roots of the language you’re reading right now: you’ll never look at—or speak—English in the same way again.
Author : Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Word Hoard; Anglo-Saxon Stories written by Jill Paton Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight stories of Anglo-Saxon times during the period of six hundred years between the time the Romans left England and the Norman Conquest in 1066.
Author : Stephen A. Barney
Publisher : Yale Language Series
ISBN 13 : 9780300035063
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Word-hoard written by Stephen A. Barney and published by Yale Language Series. This book was released on 1985 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for introductory courses in Old English, Word-Hoard offers a vocabulary of some 2000 words drawn from the poems that beginning students normally read. Exploiting the natural curiosity we feel about our own language, Stephen Barney draws etymological connections, provides mnemonic aids, and introduces the student to cultural and literary concepts as well as words. This second edition of his valuable book has been completely reset in a format that improves its clarity and conciseness. Reviews of the earlier edition: "An excellent piece of work. . . . It makes learning the basic vocabulary of Old English, especially of the poetry, an adventure in ideas, adding in short compass the fascination of etymology and even semantics to the otherwise laborious and at first crude efforts to understand the texts."--John C. Pope "It obviously reflects enthusiasm and a great deal of hard work, and it will serve very well the students for whom it is intended."--Thomas D. Hill, Speculum "There is nothing quite like it in the literature. . . . Such a book would have been enthusiastically greeted years ago. It is doubly welcome today."--Choice Stephen A. Barney is professor of English at the University of California at Irvine.
Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192835475
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (354 download)
Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon World written by Kevin Crossley-Holland and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety.
Author : Margaret Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Word-hoard ... written by Margaret Williams and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire Breay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712352024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms written by Claire Breay and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Saxon period stretches from the arrival of Germanic groups on British shores in the early 5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. During these centuries, the English language was used and written down for the first time, pagan populations were converted to Christianity, and the foundations of the kingdom of England were laid. This richly illustrated new book - which accompanies a landmark British Library exhibition - presents Anglo-Saxon England as the home of a highly sophisticated artistic and political culture, deeply connected with its continental neighbours. Leading specialists in early medieval history, literature and culture engage with the unique, original evidence from which we can piece together the story of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, examining outstanding and beautiful objects such as highlights from the Staffordshire hoard and the Sutton Hoo burial. At the heart of the book is the British Library's outstanding collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the richest source of evidence about Old English language and literature, including Beowulf and other poetry; the Lindisfarne Gospels, one of Britain's greatest artistic and religious treasures; the St Cuthbert Gospel, the earliest intact European book; and historical manuscripts such as Bede's Ecclesiastical History and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. These national treasures are discussed alongside other, internationally important literary and historical manuscripts held in major collections in Britain and Europe. This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, chart a fascinating and dynamic period in early medieval history, and will bring to life our understanding of these formative centuries.
Author : Greg Delanty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079015
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation written by Greg Delanty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dazzling variety of Anglo-Saxon poetry brought to life by an all-star cast of contemporary poets in an authoritative bilingual edition. Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul—the 123 poems collected in The Word Exchange complement the portrait of medieval England that emerges from Beowulf, the most famous Anglo-Saxon poem of all. Offered here are tales of battle, travel, and adventure, but also songs of heartache and longing, pearls of lusty innuendo and clear-eyed stoicism, charms and spells for everyday use, and seven "hoards" of delightfully puzzling riddles. Featuring all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets—including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, Robert Hass, Gary Soto, Jane Hirshfield, David Ferry, Molly Peacock, Yusef Komunyakaa, Richard Wilbur, and many others—The Word Exchange is a landmark work of translation, as fascinating and multivocal as the original literature it translates.
Author : Ian Walford
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1839783885
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Lured by the Hoard written by Ian Walford and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions swing wildly in this tense, intriguing tale of mystery and obsession. Ordinary folk react in dramatically different ways as they are caught up in savage struggles between Anglo-Saxon and British warlords.The story hinges on a fateful night in the kingdom of Northumbria in AD638. Two young men dig up a priceless treasure hoard and re-bury it on a lonely hillside. Prejudice, greed, fear and jealousy shape the many personal stories which have led the men to this point. Events twist and turn over the next few weeks towards a nerve-wracking climax as they are pulled in different directions, their loyalties tested to the limit repeatedly.
Author : Caroline Alexander
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426208146
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Lost Gold of the Dark Ages written by Caroline Alexander and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of England from the departure of Roman forces in 450 A.D. to the Norman invasion of 1066, focusing on the gold and silver artifacts of the Staffordshire Hoard found in 2009 to highlight the events and art of the period.
Author : Brian Bates
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1848504497
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book The Way Of Wyrd written by Brian Bates and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling spiritual classic about an Anglo-Saxon sorcerer and mystic “deserves a spot on our bookshelves along with Carlos Castaneda” (Time Out) Charged with the difficult task of converting the ‘heathens’ of Anglo-Saxon England to Christianity, Christian scribe Wat Brand begins to doubt his mission when he learns more about the pagan ways of his neighbors. Guided by a shaman named Wulf, Brand is introduced to a world unlike anything he has ever known—one of runes, fate, life force, and the Wyrd. But his greatest lesson awaits him in the spirit world, where he will journey and come face to face with the nature of his own soul. The Way of Wyrd is a bestselling cult classic based on years of research by psychologist and university professor Brian Bates. An authentic and deeply compelling insight into the spiritual world of the Anglo-Saxons, it has inspired thousands of people to learn more about the ancient northern spiritual tradition.
Author : Atsuro Riley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226833372
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Heard-Hoard written by Atsuro Riley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, this collection of verse from Atsuro Riley offers a vivid weavework rendering and remembering an American place and its people. Recognized for his “wildly original” poetry and his “uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative,” Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang. In Heard-Hoard, Riley has “razor-exacted” and “raw-wired” an absorbing new sequence of poems, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people. At once an album of tales, a portrait gallery, and a soundscape; an “inscritched” dirt-mural and hymnbook, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries, their “old appetites as chronic as tides.” From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring “time and time that yonder oak,” this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore.
Author : Joe Allard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131786042X
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Beowulf and Other Stories written by Joe Allard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beowulf & Other Stories was first conceived in the belief that the study of Old English – and its close cousins, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman – can be a genuine delight, covering a period as replete with wonder, creativity and magic as any other in literature. Now in a fully revised second edition, the collection of essays written by leading academics in the field is set to build upon its established reputation as the standard introduction to the literatures of the time. Beowulf & Other Stories captures the fire and bloodlust of the great epic, Beowulf, and the sophistication and eroticism of the Exeter Riddles. Fresh interpretations give new life to the spiritual ecstasy of The Seafarer and to the imaginative dexterity of The Dream of the Rood, andprovide the student and general reader with all they might need to explore and enjoy this complex but rewarding field. The book sheds light, too, on the shadowy contexts of the period, with suggestive and highly readable essays on matters ranging from the dynamism of the Viking Age to Anglo-Saxon input into The Lord of the Rings, from the great religious prose works to the transition from Old to Middle English. It also branches out into related traditions, with expert introductions to the Icelandic Sagas, Viking Religion and Norse Mythology. Peter S. Baker provides an outstanding guide to taking your first steps in the Old English language, while David Crystal provides a crisp linguistic overview of the entire period. With a new chapter by Mike Bintley on Anglo-Saxon archaeology and a revised chapter by Stewart Brookes on the prose writers of the English Benedictine Reform, this updated second edition will be essential reading for students of the period.
Author : Peter S. Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047065984X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Old English written by Peter S. Baker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a “minitext” feature to aid students in practicing reading Old English Features updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred’s Preface to Gregory’s Pastoral Care
Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545232082
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)
Download or read book The Seeing Stone (The Arthur Trilogy #1) written by Kevin Crossley-Holland and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthurian legend comes to life in the first novel in this remarkable, award-winning sagaThirteen-year-old Arthur de Caldicot lives on a manor, desperately waiting for the moment he can become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives him a shining black stone - a seeing stone - that shows him visions of his namesake, King Arthur. The legendary dragons, battles, and swordplay that young Arthur witnesses seem a world away from his own life. And yet there is something definitely joining the Arthurs together. It will be Arthur de Caldicot's destiny to discover how his path is intertwined with a king's . . . for the past is not the only thing the seeing stone can see.
