A History of Old English Literature

ISBN-13: 9781551113227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 299 str.

Michael Alexander

Opis

Old English literary history is sketchy, even more so with poetry where there is little internal evidence of place, date, occasion, or author. And there is a paucity of surviving verse about 31,000 extant lines mostly written near the year 1000 in the late West-Saxon dialect, works such as Beowulf,