The Transmission of Old English Poetry.

Publication: Medium Aevum

Publication Date: 22-SEP-01

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Peter Orton, The Transmission of Old English Poetry, Westfield Publications in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 12 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000). xviii + 223 pp. ISBN 2-503-51072-8. Eur. 50.00.

Peter Orton examines Old English poems which survive in multiple copies in an attempt to address Kenneth Sisam's question of 1953 as to how accurately Old English poetry was transmitted. Of the 185 Old English poems or fragments which survive, 20 have, wholly or in part, multiple manuscript versions, amounting...

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