Abstract The Old English poem Pharaoh has been largely unconsidered in critical literature owing to its formal and interpretive obscurities, which have led relegation a secondary place the poetic canon. text traditionally read as an unsuccessful attempt at replicating Latin models of dialogic invite reflection on typological associations crossing Red Sea. It accordingly almost exclusively part ...

This contribution surveys the range of images weeping in Old English literature, concentrating particularly on due to suffering, grief and unhappiness, tears compunction, but examining other types as well, including supplicatory sympathetic (these latter are found prose not poetry). Taking account contemporary theory, study understands be a physical manifestation distress, also function social ...

Abstract Taylor (2014) observes that some of the factual claims made in Allen (1980) , most thorough examination free relatives Old English to date, are not entirely correct. presents examples Allen’s analysis does account for and proposes an alternative which relative pronoun can be internal clause case is determined by hierarchy proposed Harbert (2007) Gothic. This corpus-based study supplies...