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Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
Old English in Switzerland
Manuscripts, Texts and Libraries
Verlag:
Schwabe Verlag Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 4L98EG8
EAN: 9783796552045
Erhältlich:
Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Fr, 18.09.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
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CHF 41.25
Beschreibung
Switzerland counts among the small but exciting places for the transmission of Old English, the ancestor language of present-day English which was spoken in England from about AD 500 until the Norman Conquest of England in AD 1066. Swiss libraries preserve some of the earliest Old English written sources including Old English bird names, the Old English names of the months, Anglo-Saxon runes, as well as the earliest version of Bede’s Death Song. Other Old English texts found in Swiss libraries were copied in Anglo-Saxon England and only reached Switzerland later, for example, three short legal texts and a fragment of a homily by Ælfric. This book presents Old English texts surviving in Swiss libraries in their historical, cultural and linguistic contexts in ten chapters.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Annina Seiler Rübekeil
- Nicole Studer-Joho
Auflage
- 1
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2025
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Detailformat
- Hardcover
Anzahl Seiten
- 229