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Article: Alfred's Metres of Boethius.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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By Bill Griffiths. (Pinner, Middlesex: Anglo-Saxon Books, 1991), 197 pp. ISBN 0-9516209-5-9. 12-95[pounds].
This new edition of the Metres of Boethius makes a welcome contribution to Alfredian scholarship; the standard edition by G. P. Krapp (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is now sixty years old. Griffiths presents the text in a clear and easily readable form; each page includes a portion of text, the corresponding material from the prose version in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 180, and textual notes. A full glossary is provided at the end. A useful and succinctly written introduction discusses a range of issues relating to Alfred's work. Particularly ...