A store of common sense : gnomic theme and style in Old Icelandic and Old English wisdom poetry / Carolyne Larrington.

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 thinking of the communities which originate it. Carolyne...

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Main Author: Larrington, Carolyne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1993.
Series:Oxford English monographs.
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