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Article: The 'Heliand': The Saxon Gospel.
- Article from:
- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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The 'Heliand': the Saxon Gospel, trans. by G. Ronald Murphy, SJ. (New York: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). xviii + 238 pp. ISBN 0-19-507375-4; 0-19-507376-2. [pound]32.50 (hard covers); [pound]12.95 (p/b). This is a companion volume to the author's interpretative study of the Heliand, and in addition to a translation of the text it includes a brief introduction, an extensive series of footnotes and four appendices (on Germanic pagan customs from Adam of Bremen's account; Germanic social ties and personal loyalty; magic in the Heliand; and the supposed numberical structure of the poem). The style of the translation is very different from that of the last English ...
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