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Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages, ed. Aisling Byrne and Victoria Flood. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019, viii., 323 pp.
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Abstract: In a collection of essays, thirteen writers discuss texts from medieval Britain and beyond, the common theme being translation or events abroad. Helen Fulton describes manuscripts and libraries in Wales; Elena Parina, Welsh medical texts; Victoria Flood, English
Tudor versions of Welsh political prophecies. Joanna Bellis sets out Latin propaganda poems of the Hundred Years’ War; Rory McTurk, possible links between Langland and skaldic verse. Then come four studies relating to Ireland. Erich Poppe takes on the Charlemagne legend in Irish; Aisling
Byrne, Irish texts on the Crusades; Mariamne Briggs, Statius in Irish; Julie Leblanc, legends in Irish about Aeneas. After that, four contributions on Iceland. Mathias Egeler surveys Otherworld islands in Norse, including the Land of Women; Sif Rikhardsdottir explores emotive literary
identity in the Old North; Sarah Bacchianti analyzes Norse translations of Geoffrey of Monmouth; Sabine Heidi Walther examines the personality of Hercules in the Old Norse saga of Troy.
Title: Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages, ed. Aisling Byrne and Victoria Flood. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019, viii., 323 pp.
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Abstract: In a collection of essays, thirteen writers discuss texts from medieval Britain and beyond, the common theme being translation or events abroad.
Helen Fulton describes manuscripts and libraries in Wales; Elena Parina, Welsh medical texts; Victoria Flood, English
Tudor versions of Welsh political prophecies.
Joanna Bellis sets out Latin propaganda poems of the Hundred Years’ War; Rory McTurk, possible links between Langland and skaldic verse.
Then come four studies relating to Ireland.
Erich Poppe takes on the Charlemagne legend in Irish; Aisling
Byrne, Irish texts on the Crusades; Mariamne Briggs, Statius in Irish; Julie Leblanc, legends in Irish about Aeneas.
After that, four contributions on Iceland.
Mathias Egeler surveys Otherworld islands in Norse, including the Land of Women; Sif Rikhardsdottir explores emotive literary
identity in the Old North; Sarah Bacchianti analyzes Norse translations of Geoffrey of Monmouth; Sabine Heidi Walther examines the personality of Hercules in the Old Norse saga of Troy.
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