Chaucer and Old Norse Mythology
Chaucer, I am arguing, made use in The House of Fame of a version of the story falling somewhere between the Norse and the Irish versions, the latter of which, as I hope I haveproduced sufficient evidence to show, had become combined with traditions relating to (St) Brigid well before the time of Giraldus (d.1223), who in turn was writing well before the time of Chaucer (d.1400).
Truth, Translation, and the Troy Book Women
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APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF MUSLIM AND JEWISH WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL IBERIAN PENINSULA: THE POETESS QASMUNA BAT ISMA`IL
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The Political Theology of Maharam of Rothenburg
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Biblical and Koranic Quotations in Hebrew and Arabic Andalusian Poetry
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Myth and Religion in the Poetry of a Reluctant Convert
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Germanic Poetry Surrounding the Third Crusade: The Role of Lyric in Portraying Crusade Attitude
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Mystic Mythopoiesis of Pre-Islamic Arabic Odes
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The Vagantendichtung: The Secular Latin Poetry of the Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages
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Book Review – Under Heaven
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Troubador
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Medievalism and Joan Grigsby’s The Orchid Door
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Korean Translation of Beowulf: Variety and Limitation of Archaic Words
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Between Guinevere and Galehot: Homo/eroticism in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle
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The Medieval Poetics of Pilgrimage and Multiple Voices
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“A Nature Interlude in the Vita Merlini”
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“Cain’s Fratricide: Original Violence as ‘Original Sin’ in Beowulf”
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“Space and Feasting Hall in the Heroic Poetry”
“Space and Feasting Hall in the Heroic Poetry” Lee, Dongill Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 14 No. 2 (2006) Abstract The…
“The Legend of False Men”?: Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women Re-titled
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Troilus and Criseyde: The Hidden Influence of Chaucer’s Reading
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A Study on Geogoð in Old English Poetry: Beowulf 535-538
A Study on Geogoð in Old English Poetry: Beowulf 535-538 Medieval English Studies, vol. 10 (2002) No. 2) Lee, Dongill Abstract This paper…
Grendel’s Mere: Freudian and Metapoetical Implications
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Holding the Center: Chaucer’s Book of Troilus and Dante’s Commedia
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So Many Tales Untold : Eloquent Silences in the Old English Canon
Sometimes the literature of the Old English period is read against a rather too simple historical frame, largely based on Bede. It is important to recall how exceptional the surviving record is, whether documentary or literary, and how many stories and names have been lost forever.
The Theme of Mutability in Old English Poetry
The Theme of Mutability in Old English Poetry Lee, Sung-Il Medieval English Studies, vol. 8 (2000) Abstract There is a poetic fragment contained…