Echoes of Britons on a Fenland Frontier in the Old English Andreas
Echoes of Britons on a Fenland Frontier in the Old English Andreas
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古英语安德烈亚斯中英国人在芬兰边境的回声
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10.1093/res/hgq047
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2010
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Lindy Brady
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Lindy Brady
这篇文章探讨了古英吉利安德里斯的梅梅多尼亚地理的独特特征，这些特征将它与这个伪传说的其他版本区分开来。这片土地和这里的人与盎格鲁-撒克逊人的英格兰有许多相似之处，这是最近人们非常感兴趣的话题；然而，这样的对齐没有解决这首诗最终确定这个地方和它的居住者是一个危险的“他者”的问题。只有古英语版本的地理细节表明，这首诗将食人民族与盎格鲁-撒克逊英格兰的一个更具体的景观联系在一起：沼泽，盎格鲁-撒克逊语库中承载着文化包袱的空间，是最后一批英国人的藏身之处，在古典地理学中，他们与同类相食有关。在安德里斯对人鱼的描述中，独特的文化细节表明，这首诗描绘的食人族并不是一个遥远的异国种族，而是一个离家更近的“他者”。以危险的英国人出没的蛮荒边境荒原为例，作为安德里安的“他者”的模型，即使对这些可怕的食人族来说，也不是距离感，而是亲近感。
This article explores the distinctive features of the geography of Mermedonia in the Old EnglishAndreasthat separate it from other versions of this apocryphal legend. The many parallels between this landscape and its people inAndreasand those of Anglo-Saxon England have been the subject of much recent interest; however, such an alignment leaves unaddressed the problem that the poem ultimately does identify this place and its occupants as a dangerous ‘other’. Geographical details present only in the Old English version suggest that the poem aligns the cannibal nation with a more specific landscape within Anglo-Saxon England: that of the fens, a space which carried cultural baggage within the Anglo-Saxon corpus as a hiding place for a last population of Britons, a people associated with cannibalism in classical geographies. The unique cultural details present in the depiction of the Mermedonians themselves inAndreassuggest that the poem models its cannibals not after an exotic, distant race, but rather an ‘other’ found much closer to home. The use of a wild frontier wasteland haunted by the presence of dangerous Britons as a model for the ‘other’ inAndreaslends the sense not of distance, but rather familiarity, to even these monstrous cannibals.