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Birds of Creation in the Old English Exeter Book

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F21%3A10441125" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/21:10441125 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qyBz6.OZBR" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qyBz6.OZBR</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.120.4.0429" target="_blank" >10.5406/jenglgermphil.120.4.0429</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Birds of Creation in the Old English Exeter Book

  • Original language description

    In Exeter Book Riddle 26 (“Gospel Book” or “Bible) the quill’s progress creates bird track, a siþade sweartlast, “dark-track traveled” (l. 11a). Because the poem describes the feather quill with the metaphor fugles wyn, “bird’s joy” (l. 7b), we can infer that the scribe writes with “the joy of a bird,” as if his or her rising and dipping hand, the lifting and resting arm were a wing. In these images, writing, copying, reading, and the mobility of birds conflate. The very tangible connection between the act of writing and bird’s flight could be one reason that birds were on the minds of insular writers, but the essential role of feathers in manuscript culture cannot fully explain the appeal of bird imagery to Old English poets, given the importance of oral-traditional rhetorical modes in their poetry. What made fuglas or fleogendan, “fowls, flying ones,” a vital part of the imaginative path taken by so many Old English poems? From riddle to elegy to scriptural translation, we cannot read for long without encountering feathers and talons. I argue here that, as a tool for meditating upon the created world, no other nonhuman creature in Old English poetry rivals them.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60205 - Literary theory

Result continuities

  • Project

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Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of English and Germanic Philology

  • ISSN

    0363-6941

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    120

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    4

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    36

  • Pages from-to

    429-464

  • UT code for WoS article

    000719631100001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database