The Appeal and Reception of the Legend of Saint Eustace in Early Medieval England and Medieval Scandinavia ...
The Legend of Saint Eustace (BHL 2760) is an unusual saint’s life which was widely circulated in medieval Europe, but has received relatively little scholarly attention beyond its roots in folklore and the sources used in vernacular translations. This is especially the case for its reflexes that can...
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Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
2020
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.54727 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/307634 |
| Summary: | The Legend of Saint Eustace (BHL 2760) is an unusual saint’s life which was widely circulated in medieval Europe, but has received relatively little scholarly attention beyond its roots in folklore and the sources used in vernacular translations. This is especially the case for its reflexes that can be linked to tenth-century England and medieval Scandinavia. This thesis will examine the transmission and reception of the Legend in early medieval England, focusing on the tenth century, and in medieval Scandinavia, where the West Norse tradition in Norway and Iceland is active between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries. Several relevant reflexes of the tradition will undergo close textual analysis – the Latin base Legend (as extant in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 9), an Old English translation, a putatively English Latin versification, a Norse skaldic versification and four Norse prose translations. A second, less popular Eustace tradition (represented by BHL 2761 and its versification) will also be ... |
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