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January 29, 2021
- handle: 10670/1.d32eek
- isbn: 9781783748273
- eisbn: 9791036560804
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Old English Old English heroic poem Beowulf Old Norse god Ing/Yngvi-Freyr Classics Literature LIT000000 DSSimilar subjects
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Edward Pettit, « Supplementary Note », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.d32eek
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Abstract
Too late for inclusion in the body of the text, there came to my attention two early Anglo-Saxon artefacts important for my discussion, in Chapter 4, of the close association of swords, and especially hilts, with the Cross in pre-Conquest England. On close inspection, one side of a gold and garnet cloisonné pommel from Dinham in Shropshire, which dates from the early seventh century, reveals a Crucifixion-scene with a tall central Cross flanked by two smaller crosses, doubtless those of the t...