IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2302: Aspects of Verse Composition in Old English: Intertextuality, Formula, and Lexis
Friday 9 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (CLASP) |
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| Organiser: | Rachel Burns, Department of English, University College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rachel Burns, Department of English, University College London |
| Paper 2302-a | The Old English Rhyming Poem and Norse Stanzaic Form (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 2302-b | Deor: Be wurman - Again (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 2302-c | Compounds, Collocations, and Composition in Old English Verse Vitae (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Abstract | This session examines different aspects of composition and circulation in the verse tradition of post-Roman, pre-Norman Britain, including the movement of tradition, lexis, form, and text across geographic, linguistic, and temporal borders, uncovering connections between different cultural climates. The variety of papers highlights the way in which a Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry's (CLASP) databases will enable researchers to move beyond confines established by traditional scholarship. This panel will consider questions of metrical form and practices of verse composition. Richard North will make comparisons between the form of the Old English rhyming poem and Nordic skaldic verse. Eleni Ponirakis will interpret the Old English gied + wrecan formula across a range of poems. Tom Revell will focus on compositional technique in a selection of hagiographical verse texts, identifying and analysing compound occurrence, formulaic distribution, and intertextualities. |