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Book Synopsis
The edition of this poem from the Exeter Book includes appendices of the two Latin sources of the poem and the prose versions of the phoenix story in Old English and Old Icelandic, and a glossary.

Table of Contents
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The Manuscript
  • Language
  • The Development of the Phoenix Story
  • Paradise
  • Sources, Authorship and Date
  • The Form
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • TEXT: 'The Phoenix'
  • NOTES
  • APPENDICES
  • 1. a. 'Carmen de ave phoenice'
  • b. Ambrose's 'Hexameron' Bk. V, ch. 79-90
  • 2. a. 'The Prose Phoenix'
  • b. An Old Norse Version of 'The Prose Phoenix'
  • GLOSSARIES
  • Old English
  • Latin

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: 1/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780859893428, 978-0859893428
      ISBN10: 0859893421

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The edition of this poem from the Exeter Book includes appendices of the two Latin sources of the poem and the prose versions of the phoenix story in Old English and Old Icelandic, and a glossary.

      Table of Contents
      • PREFACE
      • ABBREVIATIONS
      • INTRODUCTION
      • The Manuscript
      • Language
      • The Development of the Phoenix Story
      • Paradise
      • Sources, Authorship and Date
      • The Form
      • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
      • ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
      • TEXT: 'The Phoenix'
      • NOTES
      • APPENDICES
      • 1. a. 'Carmen de ave phoenice'
      • b. Ambrose's 'Hexameron' Bk. V, ch. 79-90
      • 2. a. 'The Prose Phoenix'
      • b. An Old Norse Version of 'The Prose Phoenix'
      • GLOSSARIES
      • Old English
      • Latin

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