A Store of Common Sense: Gnomic Theme and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English Wisdom Poetry by Carolyne Larrington

A Store of Common Sense: Gnomic Theme and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English Wisdom Poetry

Oxford English Monographs

Carolyne Larrington

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A Store of Common Sense is the first comparative study in English of Old Icelandic and Old English wisdom poetry. It examines problems of form, unity, and coherence, and how the genre responds to social change, both reflecting and shaping the thin...

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