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Old English Shorter Poems, Volume II: Wisdom and Lyric
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The twenty-five poems and eleven metrical charms in this Old English volume offer tantalizing insights into the mental landscape of the Anglo-Saxons.
and
famously combine philosophical consolation with introspection to achieve a spiritual understanding of life as a journey.
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direct a subjective lyrical intensity on the perennial themes of love, separation, and the passion for vengeance. From suffering comes wisdom, and these poems find meaning in the loss of fortune and reputation, exile, and alienation. “Woe is wondrously clinging; clouds glide,” reads a stoic, matter-of-fact observation in
on nature’s indifference to human suffering. Another form of wisdom emerges in the form of folk remedies, such as charms to treat stabbing pain, cysts, childbirth, and nightmares of witch-riding caused by a dwarf. The enigmatic dialogues of
combine scholarly erudition and proverbial wisdom. Learning of all kinds is celebrated, including the meaning of individual runes in
and the catalog of legendary heroes in
.
This book is a welcome complement to the previously published DOML volume