The Deorhord An Old English Bestiary
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Princeton University Press
Fr. 36.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
20.02.2024
Verlag
Princeton University PressSeitenzahl
352
Maße (L/B/H)
22.5/14.5/3.4 cm
Gewicht
594 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-691-26000-6
"Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the same since medieval times. But the words used to name and describe them have often changed beyond recognition, starting with the Old English word for 'animal' itself, deor (pronounced DAY-or). In The Deorhord, Hana Videen presents a glittering Old English bestiary of animals real and imaginary, big and small, ordinary and extraordinary -- the good, the bad, and the downright baffling. From gange-wÃ]fran or walker-weavers (spiders) and hasu-padan or grey-cloaked ones (eagles) to heafdu swelce mona or moon-heads (historians still don't know!), The Deorhord introduces a world both familiar and strange: where ants could be monsters and panthers could be your friends, where dog-headed men were as real as elephants, and where whales were as sneaky as wolves. The curious stories behind these words provide vivid insights into the language, literature, and lives of those who spoke Old English -- the language of Beowulf -- more than a thousand years ago."--
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