TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christine Elsweiler
PY  - 2011
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653009330
TI  - Laʒamon’s «Brut» between Old English Heroic Poetry and Middle English Romance
T2  - A Study of the Lexical Fields ‘Hero’, ‘Warrior’ and ‘Knight’
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-00933-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054242
N2  - The two manuscripts of the early Middle English chronicle Laʒamon’s Brut, British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ix and British Library MS Cotton Otho C xiii, display marked differences in their use of vocabulary. Whereas the vocabulary of the Caligula manuscript is consciously archaising, the lexicon of the Otho text is more modern. This study of the lexical fields ‘hero’, ‘warrior’ and ‘knight’ in the Brut chronicle investigates both the backward orientation of the Caligula Brut towards Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry and the supposed orientation of the Otho Brut towards the newly emerging genre of the Middle English romance. The results highlight the creative use of Old English models in both manuscripts and disprove the hypothesised close link between the Otho Brut and the romance genre.
KW  - Cultural transfer, Old and Middle English nominal compounds, alliterative clusters, Old English heroic poetry
LA  - English
ER  -