AvSpeov are the original of our Anglosaxon poem. Perhaps it is more consonant with probability that a literal Latin translation should have supplied the Anglosaxon monk with his materials, than that he should have been competent to adapt a Greek legend.... The Poetry of the Codex Vercellensis - Página xiv1843 - 212 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1843 - 250 páginas
...than accidental, and I think they justify the conclusion that, mediately or immediately, the 7rpa£ei? 'AvSpeov are the original of our Anglosaxon poem....pompous pedantry of Byzantium. From the time of Lucius Charinus (the Manichean of the sixth century, to whom Thilo attributes the original legend) till that... | |
| 1843 - 588 páginas
...than accidental, and I think they justify the conclusion that, mediately or immediately, the Trpd^eii 'AvSpeov are the original of our Anglosaxon poem....England, nor was even a word of Greek intelligible in the PREFACE. xv eleventh, save perhaps here and there a title or an epithet borrowed from the pompous pedantry... | |
| Irish archaeological and Celtic society - 1844 - 438 páginas
...allusion is here evidently to the Danes, who first made a settlement on the eastern coast of Ireland at the close of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century. The author of the foregoing poem, therefore, must have lived after that event; but it is very probable... | |
| Christ Church Cathedral (Dublin, Ireland). - 1844 - 434 páginas
...allusion is here evidently to the Danes, who first made a settlement on the eastern coast of Ireland at the close of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century. The author of the foregoing poem, therefore, must have lived after that event; but it is very probable... | |
| James Henthorn Todd - 1864 - 600 páginas
...Aileran. However, it is certainly antient, and cannot well be referred to a period much later than the close of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century. The traditions it has preserved of the history of Palladius may be quoted as a fifth antient document.... | |
| William Henry Llewelyn - 1870 - 234 páginas
...consistency began to develop themselves from these chaotic elements. But if we transport ourselves to about the close of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century — the era of Charlemagne — we shall find a firm basis whence we may take a connected view of the political... | |
| Hugh Graham - 1923 - 234 páginas
...combine into elaborate and harmonious designs. This art reached its most perfect stage of development at the close of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century. The monks were wont to lavish all the wealth of their artistic skill on books containing the whole or portions... | |
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