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Chargement... The Lay of Havelok the Danepar Anonymous (Havelock)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This was my first foray into the fields of Middle English beyond the Riverside Chaucer. I thought I might have difficulty because þ is not modernised in this edition. I got used to that very quickly, but what I had not realised is that Havelock is written in an entirely different dialect than I am familiar with. It is virtually Norse. At the start I would sometimes read an entire line and realise that I could not be sure of the meaning of a single word in it. I have to be in Romance mode for Chaucer but I rewired my brain to Germanic and after 20 pages of constantly flipping back and forth to the excellent glossary I suddenly realised I was reading with relative ease… which was handy because this is a fast-paced, lively and immediate story. I reminded me a lot of Star Wars. Havelock definitely wears one of the hero's thousand faces. It's written in what must have been, at the time very everyday English. The author's a very good narrative poet. It's rhymed and metred, but the poetry is subservient to the story. There's a great juxtaposition between the miraculous and the mundane. The action is clearly realised and at times it's very funny. A little gem. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Havelok is the second oldest surviving romance written in English. It is often categorized in the so-called Matter of Britain, which tell the story of English heroes and history. It is believed to have been composed somewhere between 1295-1310. The romance survives in one imperfect version, as well some fragments. A copy of the 3001 line poem is available to view in Grimsby Public Library. The story of Havelok has had a rich textual life and surely must have held great fascination for readers of many nationalities up until the 20th century. It is a story that unites the local interest of the founding of Grimsby in Lincolnshire to a cosmopolitan acknowledgment of the complex national identity of England in the Middle Ages, bringing together Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Danish and British influences. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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