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Article: The Germanic Hero: Politics and Pragmatism in Early Medieval Poetry.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 1999
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Brian Murdoch, The Germanic Hero: Politics and Pragmatism in Early Medieval Poetry (London and Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1996). x + 188 pp. ISBN 1-85285-143-0. 25.00 [pounds sterling].
Brian Murdoch is aware in this book, originally given as a series of lectures at Magdalen College, Oxford, that the poems here discussed were composed over a very long period of time in different parts of Europe. They have all been often read and discussed by medievalists of widely different backgrounds over the last two centuries or so. The texts listed in the bibliography are what the book is about: Old High German, Hildebrandslied and Ludwigslied; Middle High German, ...